I would challenge that. I think quite the contrary, in general the more successful you are, the more you've benefited from taxpayer-funded infrastructure and services. Consider roads, for example. If you are an ordinary worker, roads enable you to get back and forth to work. If you are a business owner, however, not only do they let you get to work, they enable your employees to get to work and your customers to get to wherever your products are offered. They allow your suppliers to deliver materials, and your shipping department to get products to market. The value a business owner gets from roads is compounded many times over.
The same applies to education, public safety, health services, utilities, etc. While individual workers get personal benefit from these services, business owners get compounded benefits. Your education qualifies you personally for a better job. But a good educational system ensures businesses have a steady supply of educated workers, thus helping them be profitable in the first place.
This is doubly true for our financial system, the courts, and the military. The average worker has modest need for a financial system, little more than basic banking. Businesses need a robust and diversified financial system (and of course that's a huge business in and of itself, creating amazing fortunes for a fortunate few). The court system is of only minor interest to most workers. Serving as a juror is likely the most common exposure to our courts for a good 95% of Americans. Businesses, in contrast, are relatively heavy users of our courts.
And then there's the military. While the military certainly provides some benefit to all Americans, it's really America's elite who gain the greatest benefit by far. Not only do they have the most to lose, but America's military is far more focused on protecting our business interests abroad than it is defending our homeland.
Finally, there's welfare. Ignoring corporate welfare, which directly benefits the businesses, there are various forms of welfare for individuals. Yes, they do directly benefit those individuals, at the expense of taxpayers. There is also an overall societal benefit, however, in providing a minimal standard of living to avoid widespread theft and civil unrest. Even more, for certain businesses like Wal-Mart, our welfare programs subsidize employers whose employees are so poorly paid they qualify. This puts money into the pockets of billionaires like the Walton heirs. They get a quite handsome return on their tax dollars.
I accept your argument about sincere disagreement, but that doesn't change that their motives are simple greed. That's not necessarily evil; we're all motivated by self interest to some extent. But society has no obligation to indulge greed, and those who have benefited so greatly from our extraordinary physical, financial, and educational infrastructure need to recognize they "didn't build that" all by themselves. Whether they want to acknowledge it or not, their great success was built in significant part due to the opportunities fostered by America's amazing system. That costs money, there are bills to pay, and it's not unreasonable for those who've built the greatest success to pay proportionately more for the privilege of building in our amazing system.
IMO, of course.
This. Someone gets it.