If you live in the USA.....People get so romantic about paying the firefighters and libraries but for anyone that lives in US, you can pull up the federal budget and see the majority of the money goes to BS wars for big money interests and if more people stopped paying and voted with their dollars instead of vulnerable elections, the world might be a safer place from big money wars for profits, sold to americans as 'keeping them safe'. If most of the money actually did go to firefighters and cops and actually supporting americans infrastructure, imagine how much stronger the US would be. So the best thing americans can do is to not pay taxes until the gov learns how to better spend the money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_United_States_federal_budget