Government's Age Old Conundrum

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Governments through out all time and place have had to consider their main obstacle to complete tyranny: where is the tolerance level of the citizens? Basically how much more abuse are they willing to endure at the hands of their own government? The Declaration of Independence puts it this way "…mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security…" Ben Franklin spoke about a 10% cap on all taxation as something the people would never tolerate: "It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service." Think about that 10% taxation was thought to be to a hard Government. Yet we have droves of Americans demanding more taxation, well for other not themselves, they want their own tax cut. Of course politicians understand that only so much can be put onto the backs of the citizens until they raise up and say no more. That is where the welfare state comes in. The welfare state, completely unconstitutional yet never challenged, is the way to offer the citizens the opportunity to become absolute chattel of the state. I do not know about you but I refuse to become chattel of the state. I just wonder where the modern day Moses will come from that will say "Let my people go".