It's easy to use hyperbole to make it sound tyrannical. Why, to pay for that 'bridge to nowhere' in Alaska, there were ARMED MEN THREATENING JAIL to force me to pay!
Tyranny, I tell you!
In the real world, too many citizens lack the basic concept of how it works better for there to be a system for everyone to pay some taxes for things for the common good.
The problem is that too many private interests - see the K street project with republicans - have made the system overly dependant on their donations and under-dependant on the voters' interests, with the money paying to basically brainwash the public both directly about candidates ("AL GORE INVENTED THE INTERNET WHAT A LIAR!!1!1!!") and indirectly to indoctrinate them to ideology (REPUBLICANS ARE THE PARTY OF SMALL EFFICIENCT GOVERNMENT, GIVING TO THE WEALTHY MAKES YOU RICHER).
The right wing paints a fantasy as the alternative to the democrats - a nation where taxes will be lower and people more prosperous, the 'big government' replaced by a vacuum.
However, that won't happen; the real alternative looks more like the days of the robber barons, and we're already seeing the effect with the increased concetrations in wealth, the less effective democratic governments, the unaccountable ultra wealthy class and corporations who can use capital to make nations compete and grow ever more wealthy and powerful.
We're returning to the days of our revolution when the English government was in cahoots with the largest corporation in the world to screw the public; variations will be seen from China with its growing industries, with Russia - we already see Putin plaing the power games trying to assassinate billionares who don't cut the government in - and in the US where the government becomes basically an arm of the corporations, elections controlled enough by money that they have the say and real 'independants' can't get elected.
The victories of our founding fathers in giving the power of the nation to the people are being undone before our, you can see it in the posts here attacking elected government.
Short-sighted ideology will harm our democracy. Not many know that perhaps the major motivator of Reagan's right-wing jihad against government was resentment over taxes.
Of course we all hate excessive taxes, government, waste, but the problem is that there is big money distorting people's views of where the waste really is.
A well-run public facility again and again is 'raped' by a privatizing interest who spends the money to 'sell' the plan, the public interest unable to spend the same to make the otehr side of the case, they get it, grab the dollars, spend more to explain away the problems as not their fault, and leave the empty husk behind while they go to the bank. Too many people are foolish and allow it.