Seeing as there's no chance of voting for "no taxes" because that's not how effective governments in the real world work (although I wish the Seasteaders, Cryptoland[0], and the LPD[1] the best of luck), your point is rather moot.

A quick synopsis of my wall of words below - stop calling mutual obligation "ownership", I feel that's a bit of a silly framing.

No matter how high or low our tax rates, you live in a society. Societies were evolved by our ancestors because they kept clever apes (with no natural weapons and infants that have the animal world's longest periods of helplessness due to the compromises involved in big brains and pelvises) alive better than not having them.

But a society comes with a) rights and b) responsibilities. The two are not an OR, nor XOR, but very much AND.

The government mandating you wear a helmet on a motorcycle is because far too many people focus on their rights only, and consider their responsibilities an onerous imposition - and then impose the consequences of their choices on the rest of society.

If you feel you have no obligations to the rest of society, you're wrong in my opinion, but you are always free, of course, to opt out entirely, go and build a hut in the boreal forests (tropical is also an option, but might be too many societies living in them for your tastes), and live fully free.

And because Terry Pratchett is eminently quotable in these areas: "Freedom may be mankind's natural state, but so is sitting in a tree eating your dinner while it is still wriggling."

Perhaps I can give you an example not involving brains being hosed off roadways.

As our society is a big fan of property rights, a mutual obligation of "don't steal my stuff, and I won't steal yours" is core to it. Even the USSR, despite it's views on private property, weren't fans of stealing from other members of your society.

It's a very old value in human societies, I mean, it's in the top ten Commandments from YHWH, and we're going back a few thousand years there.

Previously it was enforced by people of the tribe throwing stones while the priests watched, these days it's enforced by the government, a collective figment we formed to represent our society's collective desires and values as best we can (very imperfectly, but as the old saying goes, democracy is the worst form of government, apart from all the others we've tried).

If I choose to steal your stuff, agents of the government (paid for by the taxes of yourself and other members of society) will try to apprehend me, return your stuff, and punish me for violating a mutual obligation inherent to our society.

But, to go full reductio ad absurdum here, why should the fact of your paying taxes constrain my choice to steal your stuff? Why should my choices be constrained when they impact you? Do you think you own me?

If not, please send me location details, times of day you're not at home, alarm codes, the favourite foods of any pets which might be defensive when I come calling unexpectedly so I can make friends before trying to carry your TV out, and which valuables have the highest market value, just so I can reaffirm that you and I claim no ownership of each other or our respective actions.

TL;DR - it's not ownership, it's mutual obligation. It's central to being a social animal, and we're social animals because that's how we evolved.

PS - I was trying to be understanding of your POV, as I had assumed you'd lived in the USSR based on your repeated comparisons to it. Then I found out that you're Apple Pie American, so now I'm just a bit sad that you're resorting to Soviet Russia for the sake of argument.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/16/cryptolan...

[1]: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertari...