It is redundant to claim that taxation is immoral, since when morality is derived from the consensus, then clearly it is not, to many people. We should instead point to the arguments which suggest that we are incorrect to permit it. What is good about taxation, since we assume they (we) would prefer that we are not taxed. What is good about forcing people to pay for services which are then provided by the Government? Why force people to pay taxes?
Failure to pay taxes results in violence. This would appear to contradict established codes of ethics in that normally the initiation of force would be seen as criminal, and yet an exception is made for the Government. Extortion is (should be?) wrong because to imprison someone is not right unless they have done something wrong, we can assume, and the desire for payment does not mitigate against the crime. To lock someone up is wrong (a crime) unless there are reasons to justify it as defensive.
Taxation is antisocial.
It's not very nice to lock people up for failure to pay taxes. Why do the police arrest people whose only crime is failure to pay (have paid) money to the Government? Failure to pay is not a crime; doing nothing is OK. Do we want to pay taxes? So what if people don't (want to) pay taxes? Why not let them be free...
We are not free if we must pay taxes for events or arrangements which are not harmful. It can be argued that we are still free if we pay a fine for doing a (minor) crime, but we are not free if we pay a tax for something which is not a crime, such as trade. We are not free if we must pay unjust taxes.
Taxation is unfair.
What is there to worry about?
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