For me I've always been ok with paying taxes (income tax since those are paid centrally in New Zealand and city councils are there for the bare basics of libraries, pools, roads, sewage etc) to fund health, education, social welfare, roads, rail etc. but if, as a parent, after receiving all those services you require more money to top up your income then IMHO you've been irresponsible to have more children than you can afford. Living in a society involves the collective meeting half way and the individual meeting at that half way point - if we have people getting to the point that they pretty much pay for next to none of their lifestyle choices I really have to ask whether it is a partnership or the enslavement by society at large by those whose narcissism allows them to justify them living a lifestyle at someone else's expense.