It would appear that emotion has gotten the better of you. One of your sources is the same one I used to highlight the hurdle you must leap to believe that a tax break is a subsidy. Ergo, I already acknowledged their definition, and their stipulations (which you are now dodging). Another of your sources which you cite defines subsidy as a "a direct pecuniary aid furnished by a government to a private industrial undertaking, a charity organization, or the like" while yet another says that "Direct subsidies are those that involve a direct payment toward a particular group or industry." So one says a subsidy has to be direct aid and another acknowledges that a direct subsidy involves actual cash payment. A tax break would be an "indirect subsidy" which puts it at odds with your other source that a subsidy must be direct aid. Your own sources don't agree! Thank you for making my point, I guess. You describe your willing decision to exchange taxes for services. That is a direct contradiction to the hurdle that our mutual source referred to; "This requires the assumption that a person's or an entity's money belongs to the government." How can you make the willing decision to pay taxes if your money already belongs to the government? You are also making the strawman that I do not want to pay any taxes. I have never said that; I have only stated that I don't believe it is right or effective for the government to take anyone's tax money and give it to non profit organizations, Planned Parenthood being one of them. I don't think that they should give money to any churches (regardless of religion), gun rights groups (regardless of side), and so on. I might have a need for a fireman or police officer. I benefit from a national defense system. There are regulations and systems in place that protect me. These things have real costs and I have no issues with taxes for these items. The "if you don't like then leave" argument is seriously the weakest comeback in the history of ever. Would you tell the Black Lives Matter movement that if they don't like being shot by police then they should just leave? How about those opposed to the 2nd amendment? It's the law of the land - if you don't agree then move to Canada. Oppose any war? See ya. Don't like something about anything in this country? Adios. Seriously, it's a pretty weak stance and shows me that you don't mean to have a serious discussion.