taxes

As an American this is my very biased perspective as to why people in the US hate taxes, I know you did not ask for a well of text but here it is, the shortest answer is that not enough of the taxes being taken are being used to the benefit every day citizens because of our economic system was re-engineered in the late 70s and 80s to support a new corporate owned government that now exist to redistribute most resources and public money to very large and very powerful "private" businesses. This system is kept in place though propaganda designed to reinforce views for

"lower taxes", this view point is supported so it can be manipulated/twisted to justify eliminating taxes on the wealthy and shift the burden on middle/poor citizens)

and

"small government", this view point like the former is supported so it can be manipulated/twisted to support the elimination of public survives and institutions that compete for public money against large businesses hence why it paradoxically exist along side views that support large military and police)

My longer explanation below

A large chunk of taxes go to the military, another large chunk go's to maintaining very large "private" businesses through subsidies, bailouts, deliberately over priced contracts, and various forms of corruption, as a consequence large businesses in the US are now dependent on taxes to survive rather than consumer practices as they were in the past (prior to the 1970s) These businesses are now linked to the government so strongly in modern times that they have merged to be a part of the state but still possess the autonomy and drive the make money at all cost that private businesses possess but no longer make their money though consumerism alone. This means that they now correctly view (other) publicly funded institutions/organizations as competition that must be eliminated so that public funds can be redirected to themselves, this is achieved through lobbying and extensive amount of propaganda aimed at increasing public support "lower taxes" policies that in reality just shift the burden away from these businesses and increase the amount middle/lower income Americans are paying. Propaganda is used to increase support for "lesser government" but in reality the aim is for less funding/elimination/privatization of government social programs and institutions that exists the support poor and middle class Americans, the same political factions that support small government push for large military and police, military and police are necessary to the survival of the wealthy.

Many Americans find it easy to digest and support the goals of these large businesses and their political allies because the entire system has largely already been rigged to create a system that does not benefit US citizens anymore, a process conspired back in the late 1940s by fascist sympathizers who along with their children are now major players in the US government. A large number of issues are created by this system of corporate control of the US which makes it is very easy for people to hate the idea of large government and taxes,

The issues created by this system include a government with has a bad reputation for maintaining relations with and sending foreign aid to countries that have a toxic relationship with the United States and its people and in some cases (allegedly) have attacked and killed US citizens, these toxic relationships and deals exist to benefit private companies and the foreign governments they hold neo-colonial influence over, a situation that makes these relationships even more toxic as these deals create resentment towered the US because of how badly the screw over the native inhabitants of these nations. The money that is left over after military/corporations/foreign is paid for and used on the public institutions like schools, roads, parks, health, social security and so on but is disproportionally distributed to wealthy neighborhoods in major cities, the poorer parts of cities are often underfunded and largely kept alive through programs that exist to only (just barely) help people who are already destitute, homeless or in jail, publicly funded programs that help prevent poverty and homelessness are largely non existent in US cities, "crime prevention" is a joke, very little is put into preventing crime but a lot is put into punishing it, "private" prisons are one of the many new autonomous state industries in the US that are tax dependent rather than consumer dependent, although they do make a lot of money through legal slave labor which is a form of consumer driven profit.

Rural areas in the United States are often worse off than poor urban areas, rural towns in the United States have been largely abandoned to the point that people depend on religious organizations to survive and/or just grit there teeth and find ways to survive without government help. A lot of people in the US on the political left wonder why poor people in rural areas vote "against their interests" (government programs that help the poor) but it makes sense when this reality is factored in, its not stupid to vote for policies that promise to (and sometimes if temporarily do) lower taxes and eliminate public programs that largely do not benefit you.