And a good social safety net helps the workforce maintain the productivity by keeping it healthy and educated. Furthermore, it removes concerns about health care insurance, sudden unemployment, education for the kids, etc.

I see the tax I pay as an investment in the people and society. Society helped me get good health care and take a good education, even though I come from what would be a lower class home in much of the world. I pay that gift forward to someone else - very likely to be people in my own family.