You underestimate the concept of enlightened egoism. If all else was equal, I would just eat bacon and chocolate all the time, but because I am aware that in the long run that would not be good for me, I eat other foods (if you can even call them food). In the same way, most people wouldn't want to pay more in taxes all else being equal, but all else is not equal. For some, there is a recognition that the government needs money to function, and they are much much much better off with a strong government than a weak one.

I think the far more interesting point of the article is that state and local taxes comprise 84% of what a certain class of people would pay if they paid federal taxes. I would expect this to completely deflate the people who complained bitterly about those who had no "skin in the game" as measured in paying federal income tax, but of course those complaints are intentionally specious. Oh well.