What are taxes for?
We live in a community, whether we like it or not. Most of us like it, most of the time. We enjoy clean and (relatively) well-maintained roads and sidewalks, public playgrounds, and the assistance provided by first responders. Some of us enjoy playing golf on public courses or enrolling our kids in dance classes offered by the parks departments. Some of us benefit from the regulation of securities markets or the government-backing of our mortgage companies.
But because we all benefit from life in a society, whether or not we take full advantage of some or all (or none) of these services, we all pay for them. Some of these benefits still require an additional payment from people seeking to use them (public golf courses and parks department dance classes have a fee, but it is much lower than their private counterparts), and not everyone sees the immediate benefits of a particular government service. You may never have needed to call the fire department to your home, nor taken a child to a local playground. But these community benefits and services represent a series of collective choices about what our community values.