Sometimes it feels like a forced insurance on a massive scale with no actual guarantee of the terms included. Like, with an insurance you can actually pick an insurance depending on convenience and what you want to cover for the possibility that you have to go to the hospital or you lose your property, etc.

But with the government, you can only pick one depending on where you live, and there are regulations about how you can move from one place to another, etc. So if you can't leave a country, you're trapped with one "insurance" regardless of whether you agree with the terms of the contract or not, and if you don't pay, you go to jail, even if by no means do you intend to use the insurance because you're covered in another way.

So from that point of view, there's a debate on the fact that the rich somehow owe the rest of the population the money they have, and even if they don't intend to use the services the taxes are paying, they must still do their "social duty" to cover the less endowed's expenses.

It mounts up to a complicated mess of tangled arguments that I don't have the mental strength to disentangle. I really wish things were simpler, or that there were better solutions, like a "pick your government" kinda thing for competition to exist. Imagine multiple governments in one territory competing within free market! :D