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If people want the benefits of society, they need to be paid for.
Life Pro-Tip: You definitely want the benefits of a functioning society.
The alternative is nasty, brutish, and short as a wiser person than us once said.
A functioning society needs a functioning government. A functioning government based on consent of the governed is a precondition of taxes being justified. Otherwise tax is theft.
I'm assuming the individual gives the consent. So what happens if you don't consent?
What happens if you don't consent is you get locked up. Which means you don't live in a free country founded on consent of the governed.
You do realize I was asking about your "functioning government"? What happens if you decide to no longer consent?
For a government to operate on consent of the governed they must have a fairly easy way to break off from that government. For example, they could allow anyone who purchases land on the border to secede and form their own country over the land that they own. And collectively there should be ways for towns or the whole country to vote and throw off their governments and institute new ones, like the Declaration of Independence says.