Hello Anon. It is very true that tolerance now seems to be a dirty word. We live in an age of inforced conformism. And the internet, which should be a medium for free discourse, the friend of the people and the enemy of the tyrant, as the printing press was, is too often a place where debate is closed down. Maybe, as you suggest, that is because 'the people' (or more likely a loud minority who claim to represnt them) are the new tyrant.
I agree that taxation is theft. That seems self evident. The state is nothing more than a protection racket.
As Larken Rose has said,
"I'm not scared of a loony with a mustache, but the millions of those who hallucinate and believe in his "authority."" (paraphrasing)
Yeah... images are an ass @philosophical...