I mean, AFAIK technically taxes are voluntary. Is the IRS really under mandate to "enforce" taxation?
You are incorrect as a large number of would-be tax avoiders can attest.
e.g. Mr. Snipes
The nation literally passed a constitutional amendment specifically to allow direct, unapportioned income tax.
(Also: the sixteenth amendment?)
The 16th amendment was adopted on February 3, 1913. Good to read its history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_Uni... and how controversy still stands despite a century of litigation.
Yes. 4 years after congress passed the amendment, it was ratified by the 36th state and adopted. In no way was this "magically mandated without any sort of discussion".
You're just unwilling to admit that your views aren't broadly popular.
No they don't.
If I cannot choose to not pay taxes, then I have been denied the right to choose, then it is a forced subjugation of my free will. Correct would be to give my taxes voluntarily, according to my disposition and agreement with the government.
If you are profoundly 'contra' what the government is doing, then how can you be forced to help with activities that you believe to be deeply detrimental to the well-being of yourself, others, and all life on earth and beyond?
Tolstoy argues this point very well in his book "The Kingdom of God is Within You." He essentially says that if we pay taxes to a government that kills innocents or tortures Arabs their blood is on our (the taxpayers') hands.
If the government is doing something that I find to be deplorable then I have the moral obligation to find a way to avoid contributing to such array of horrors.
Because you participate in society and its infrastructure and services, paid for by taxes.
I'm sure there are uninhabited tundras where no one will bother you.