If I two billion dollars in munis, I’d pay no taxes but could live like Midas.

If I’m busting my hump trying to raise a family and pay for my parent’s health care, I’m taxed to death.

The point can be extended by asking people if they have ever bought shoes made by the government, and how they liked their government shoes. No shoes? Ask about government ipods instead. No ipods? Then let’s think about the last time you actually got something from the government (other than a tax return, which was your own money coming back to you after being seized from you and forcibly borrowed by the government). Maybe it was the DMV. Remember that experience, with such polite workers, top notch service, a choice of styles in drivers licenses appropriate for everyone, in a pleasant environment, and quick and sensible tests based on a well-written manual. More likely by far, their last experience with the government ended with the government taking something away from them, while punishing them and making them feel abused and outraged in addition to poorer.