The whole point of government is to be authoritarian. That authority is what separates tax collectors from muggers. That authority is what allows for public good such as welfare programs and public bad such as a militarized police force that brutally defends the capitalist class and their capital. Under “liberal” capitalism, that authority is concentrated in the hands of the dictators that own the means of production.
Obamacare fined people for not having health insurance (generally because they couldn’t afford it). The money collected from that fine was not used to provide those people with health insurance or healthcare.