I pay my taxes voluntarily. I can walk around outside and see the officers patrolling the streets because my tax dollars paid for them to be there, and the tho

I pay my taxes voluntarily. I can walk around outside and see the officers patrolling the streets because my tax dollars paid for them to be there, and the thousands of cars driving on those streets daily because my tax dollars paid for the maintenance on those roads. I can look up in the sky and see blue, and I can see the mountains dozens (or in some cases, hundreds) of miles away, because local air quality agencies have been cracking down on polluters. I can swim in the ocean because multiple agencies have been regulating polluters, and cleaning the water, so that it is safe for human activity. I can visit 3 national parks and dozens of state parks within a 4 hour drive, all paid for by my tax dollars. And, oddly enough, in all my years as a tax professional, I've only seen one person go to jail for not paying taxes: Wesley Snipes. Everyone else just pays the penalties and fines and moves on with their lives.