[DanielBMarkham]

Lots of stuff is free.

Come couch surf at my place. I pay for it, but you enjoy it: it's free to you. Here's an ice cream cone. Once again, I paid, but you enjoy it.

To you, it's free.

Now -- use the powers of government to force people to pay taxes to buy you an ice cream cone? It's not free to you any more.

The danger is that you start feeling like I'm going to give you ice cream cones anytime. I can correct you of that assumption pretty quickly. But when the giver is some anonymous blob, starts looking like free money.