Freedom or Agency?

There is a difference between Freedom and Agency. We have the agency to choose to live in a society that takes away a portion of our freedom in the form of taxation. You might not like the fact that your money is being used to help people to their feet, and I might not like the fact that my money is being used to fund the spread of our empire. Occasionally, there will be a swing to one direction or the other where more money will be used in one cause or another, but that doesn't mean that you or I should stop paying our taxes just because the cause we like least is getting more attention than we think it deserves. There are very few Liberals that want to see our country end up as a purely communist or even socialist society, but when there is obvious uncontrolled oppression, like what the health insurance industry has created, we can compromise and set up a single payer system, that unlike other similar systems would allow people to purchase the drugs or treatments that wouldn't be covered by the base level insurance.