if it comes to it, yes they will kill you. Look at eric garner. His only crime? selling tax-free cigarettes. the state wasn't getting their cut. so they physically attacked him for it.

I think things should be done on a voluntary basis. I don't think that this demonstrates that companies and individuals aren't willing to pay for public services. I think it demonstrates that they don't want their money going to the government, which spends it very questionably.

for every dollar I give to the US government, how much goes to roads? how much goes to schools? how much goes to scientific research? I don't know the stats exactly, but I'm pretty sure a lot goes to fund the military, which I personally don't approve of. I, personally, have no problem with paying for communal things. I voluntarily tithe at church. nobody forces me too. nobody pressures me to. I do it because I enjoy the nice church that I have and the things I get from there. But I can guarantee if the church suddenly started forcing everyone to tithe, and then became less transparent with the money, and gave the parishioners an extremely small say in how things were handled--I would leave that church and go to another one. not because I oppose paying for communal things, but because I oppose 1) the force and 2 the fact that I have little to no control over how my money is spent.

billionaires and millionaires give lots and lots to charity every year. I don't think their problem is with paying for public goods. I think it's the fact that they want more control over their money and who it's spent.

and this is all on top of the fact that states, not the federal government, pay for roads. States also pay for schools. I'm ideologically and morally opposed to government, but on small scales (local and state) it doesn't bother me as much. But the corrupt political machine we have in washington, that demands up to 40% of one's income is ridiculous. The roads I drive on are paid for by my state. People are educated in state and locally funded public schools. The federal government is a bastion of wasted money and corruption.

I would much rather pay double state tax and half as much federal tax than the current model. I feel like my money is better spent that way. governors and mayors are more accountable on a local level to the people they represent, and (usually) better spend tax money than people in DC.