> I don't agree that they should take my money

I'm not American so I can be mistaken, but isn't it written in the American Constitution that government has the power to tax citizens?

In that case it's the price to pay to be part of the community, like it or not.

Coming from Italy I can only say that mafia doesn't do what they do because some fundamental law that defines a Country and is accepted by every political party gives them the power to do it, but only because they have the means to force other people to follow their own rules, they are violent criminals, out of the law.

Also: being prosecuted in a due process and eventually arrested it's not the same thing as being killed because some mob boss feels like it.