By the government. That self-legalized gang of thugs who are also psychotic in that they do not consider themselves thugs or robbers. They are "the government" – and what they force you to pay them merely "taxes."

As well as "license" and "registration" – styled "fees."

You pay all of these when you buy a vehicle, notwithstanding how many times "the government" has already robbed you. It's not enough that they rob you of money every time you earn some, leaving you with less money to buy things. They rob you again when you use the money to buy something – and then again to use the thing you bought, such as a new (even if very old) vehicle.

Everyone understands it is legitimate – it is rightful – to defend oneself agains an ordinary (and psychologically sound) robber. Yet almost everyone is under the delusion that when government robs you, it has the "right" to do so – and (worse because degrading) that it is our obligation to stand and deliver, as it used to be styled. It is a very strange dissonance and testament to pervasiveness of fractured (or crippled) thinking, largely the product of not thinking – that being the product of (who would have guessed it?) government schools.

Once you acquire the power of thought, you see that you are being robbed – and the same instinct to protect oneself wells up. But the robber is powerful and best not confronted directly just yet.