Paying Taxes is Irrational! (a fable)

Fable about Spoilt Apple
One (or once upon a time) day a man came to the market to buy apples. Apple was expensive, 2 dinnars per pound. But there were also oranges for half of that price. So he decided to buy oranges. Sellers of the apple were sad.
Second day he came to the market and found out that apple became more expensive – 5 dinars. So he turned away and bought again oranges for 1 dinar. The sellers of the apple were sadder.
Third day surprised him very much – the sellers of the apples couldn’t sell their apple and the apples were already spoilt, but the price was again 5 dinars, so he of course bought oranges again for 1 dinar.
Forth day the man came and was astonished when seeing that all the market was full of cheap apple for ½ dinar, but there was the same problem with them – all apples were spoilt. The sellers of the apples were angry – he didn’t buy our apples for 2 dinars and for 5 too, but now we have very cheap apples – half of oranges price, why he is not buying our apples instead the twice as expensive oranges?
The man answered:
I don’t want to buy spoilt apple not for 5 dinars and not for ½ dinnar too.

The main idea:
You cannot convince taxpayers that paying taxes is rational if your government is ineffective.