I loved your rant about unemployent/workers comp and medicare bills.
in the UK we pay national insurance, (as our health service is nationalised) and again that's one that you don't mind paying.
it's the tax that gets you, when you think that you work hard so that others can choose not to.
though what you have to realise is it's not everyone that chooses not to.
some are forced not to, like that other guys said due to injury/redundancy etc...