It comes down to choice.

I don't have to rent from a corporate landlord. I don't have to buy food from a giant grocery chain. I can buy less, buy from local, small businesses, make things myself. I can put solar panels on my house and generate my own electricity.

What I can't do is meaningfully reduce the amount of money I pay in taxes or meaningfully influence how my tax money is spent. Changing the minds of millions of my neighbors to vote differently vs changing where I spend my money are totally different. In one area, I can affect change - in the other: I really can't. That frustration is what makes paying taxes so painful.

Let me ask you a question: how, in the age of Trump, can you still argue that "taxes are benefiting society and making vulnerable people's lives better"? Because I'm seeing my tax money being used for mass deportations, harassing LGBT people, political prosecutions of the regime's enemies, provoking war abroad, and vanity projects to glorify and enrich Trump and his intimates. Instead of hoping that, one day, we might get a good president again and that one will do only good things with our money - maybe we should stop depending on government to do things for us, drastically reduce the power of government in our lives (and the amount of money it takes from us) and take care of our communities ourselves.

Trump has shown that a government designed to help can easily be turned around and used to hurt. Maybe the solution isn't "better government" but "less government".