You may feel that way but in every state I know of we the people have collectively agreed that the state should provide certain services and that we will pay for those services via taxes.
Where isn't that the case?
This is NOT about how I 'feel'. Not everyone who votes for a local tax, or a tax raiser will pay said taxes raised. There is a 'collective' mentality that taxation is the remedy to punish those that earn a dollar. I am pure 'tea party' mentality. NO taxation/mandates or regulation without representation. As a property owner within this county, I have NO say over what bilge gets taught as the local school district. But the county will take my property IF I do NOT pay their assessed taxation.
The 'collective' government has by design picked which businesses they will bail out and we the people be damn. Carrier is small pocket change, and that 7 million, you keep itching out that unfairly got graced upon the 'employees' of Carrier, is not even a measurable amount in the grand scheme of the national hurt. I take Carrier as symbolic national 'stand' that 'we the people' have had our fill of big daddy government's redistribution of this nation's wealth.
There’s a lot that “the state” (notably including the Fedguv, so let’s not exclude the elephant in the room from our view by means of quibbles) does that the people really didn’t so much agree to as acquiesce in, under the drubbing of the illiberal liberals.
We have climate change now; political climate change. The hot air emitted by the lefties has brought on a greenhouse punishing its source, so to speak. “Put a brake on the leftiness” but in the form of “Make America Great Again.”
... and a lot of that was the crypto-welfare program of government sinecures.