You pay the tax to have someone fight it anyway, with a side of dealing with a police apparatus so powerful you can only hope to run from when they turn against you in violation of civil protections.

Some people are temperamentally oriented to regulating or policing other people, so all you need do is ensure that the police are themselves policed, and the regulators are themselves regulated, and then you can confidently turn your strength toward the powers greater than mere humanity.

A liberal democracy is better than a police state or an anarchistic state. Neither Mogadishu nor North Korea.