Come on. It's more like: "I took some of your money for myself, gave some to my cronies so that I'll get their bribes in the future too, and a part of it was u

Come on. It's more like: "I took some of your money for myself, gave some to my cronies so that I'll get their bribes in the future too, and a part of it was used to run all kinds of pointless bureauracy. Oh, and we provided you with shitty health-care services you still didn't need". If a McDonald's starts forcefully taking a cut of your income every month, but delivers you a few Big Macs "in return", is that alright? You're getting "services" so it's all good? > A: One of them, in essence, is trying to help you, the other one does not care about you. No. Actually, they take your money by force exactly because they're not trying to help you. Otherwise you'd just be paying for the goods and services you want to pay for.