Over in the U.S. it seems like people hate taxes because they don't want other people to get "their" money and in the meantime they're happy to watch the entire infrastructure of the country fall apart, as long as poor people are miserable, prisons are filled to the rafters and the military gets like half the government's budget (for freedom, support our troops, rah rah rah) it's all good.
It's infuriating. You like civilization? Pay some goddamn taxes. But alas.