I live in New York; we remit something like $50B/year more to the Federal government than we receive. I paid about $650K to the Feds last year, and while I don't begrudge the shared responsibility, it's hard not to feel like a prime sucker sending so much to a government that will to allocate it mostly to states whose inhabitants voted for a President who would agree that I was foolish to have been so honest.
Like you, the President has a place in New York and he lived there until he became eligible for government housing in DC. I think you have his sympathy on the taxes. There was that one year that he paid for an F-15 with all the extras.
This is a straw man argument that hand waives away all of the issues and complaints of the people who protest the federal government. One doesn't need to believe in anarchy to believe that the federal government is out of control and should be heavily reformed.
