Individualists scoff at the idea of taxes, or any other forced obligation. They want to give back to communities on their own terms, at their own discretion, just like they succeeded on their own terms.
This attitude, and the mistaken concept of money that underpins it, positions the more fortunate as "benefactors" and gives them an assumed moral advantage over those who benefit from "their" efforts. When this is expanded to the greater economy it tends to promote the status quo of corporations and industry as the top of the heap from which those benefits flow downward to us mere mortals according to their whims and our abilities as it suits them.
In many ways, they are correct in disliking taxes, but that is only because we have established a false hierarchy that denies the role society plays in the creation and distribution of the currency we use to pay accounts and measure the worth of the things we need or want. Only by positioning themselves as the "source" of that currency can the wealthy assure that the society will maintain their ability to remain wealthy. If we assume we must "get" money from someone who already has it before we can spend on the public purpose this pecking order is perpetuated and the wealthy remain relevant.
The truth is they are completely irrelevant to, in fact dependent upon, the society spending on the public purpose. The wealthy, even including their banks and corporations, cannot create that currency. Such is the monopoly authority given to the government/society, and that authority is not dependent upon revenue, present or past.
This means that anything we can imagine and resource from existing or potential sources and that can be purchased in the government's unit of account is "affordable" without depriving anyone of the fruit of their efforts. The two major implications of this are; 1) "any" suffering that can be mitigated by spending federal dollars is strictly a "political choice", and 2) society, not the owners of the currency, has a fundamental "right" to determine the rules of distribution of "its" currency that business uses to assign value to its productivity.
The misconceptions that surround money are extremely beneficial to business and the wealthy, as they can be used to make the non-wealthy workers subject to the whims of the wealthy. Most of the rules governing that creation and distribution are the product of those misconceptions that serve to perpetuate them, not any reality of our monetary system.
Shifting the perception of money among the majority of society would be vastly transformative to solving many of our existing problems, but would make the wealthy irrelevant to the society's goals, so the pushback against any such epiphany will be immense. The status quo, even when demonstrably in error, remains persistent. Adding in the advantage enjoyed by that status quo and those who benefit from it may make such an epiphany unachievable, but those who understand have little in the way of options to choose from. The truth, once known, becomes a cruel master that won't be denied.
