Here's the deal.
You know what? I don't mind paying a little extra taxes.
I am unlikely to ever live in a society with no taxes at all, so I don't feel like haggling on the amount of taxes I pay. Fine, I will pay 13% and not 10%.
(Thomas Jefferson considered 1.5% high - in a society that had the state provide for the poor and for public education.)
But:
1. Once we agree to that, who's to stop them from demanding 14%, 20%, 30%, 50%?
2. And this one is more important.
Let's say I agree to pay, say, for the health care of the poor. Totally cool.
And for the children of the poor to be educated. Don't want to throw them out in the street.
So, now, when Maid Marian and Robin Hood spawn fifteen children, I pay for their schooling. And when Friar Took rides his motorbike without a helmet and gets brain-damaged, I pay for his health care.
Sounds like I have the perfect reason to force Took to wear a helmet. After all, he's accepting my health care, he can't turn down my benevolent directions. You take the king's coin...
And this is how this goes down. Now that we've accepted to be the recipients of the state's largesse - and even if you are sworn on the altar of god to never take welfare, I can't know that you won't lose both your legs tomorrow in a freak accident and are not driven to the ER which I also subsidize with my taxes.
By accepting this, you have given the taxpayer class - the nine-to-five, tie-wearing Rockwell painting characters, and the caring coastal liberals alike - the perfect reason to be able to run your life. And they do.
Now, I do not owe anybody to keep supporting the welfare state. Receiving money from the govrenment is not a right. Certainly the state can continue giving it - some US states even have a right to free education as part of their constitution - but certainly we can stop at any time.
I am completely happy to abolish all welfare - even if some people suffer from it the short-term or even in the long-term - if that is the cost of getting my freedom back.