Hey, we can do that In the United States too,..
While I suppose it's unfortunate we are denied the freedoms to:

Use any psychoactive drug we want to (it's our own bodies, afterall)
Hire a prostitute
Order drugs from a pharmacy without a perscription
Order drugs from overseas without the DEA confiscating it occasionally
Not pay taxes
Marry as many people as we want
Marry any Gender that we want
Own and carry a handgun without jumping through 5 billion hoops (in many states)
Be a nudist in public
Own and carry an automatic weapon in many states
Possess a nuclear weapon legally
Have sex in the park
settle a dispute with a duel
marry family members
drink alchohol under 21
sell phychoactives to consenting adults
run your own radio statioin without paying huge fees or going to jail
exercise your "freedom of speech" on said radio station by using obscenities, without being fined
gamble
change your gender on your birth certificate (in some states you cannot)
etc etc

But I suppose at the end of the day, we are free because we can choose what job we have and what school we want to not have enough money to go to, thanks in-part to taxes.

Personally I think many people have a warped perception of freedom, Americans brag about how free they are all the time, but there are many things they ought to be able to do that are crimes.
Unfortunately I think the rest of the world shares that warped perception to some degree as well.

Don't get me wrong, I am a former socialist, I would love it if nobody had to worry about if they can afford to go to the hospital to get that blood in the urine, or axe in the head checked out. But I also view forcing people to pay taxes is thievery, honestly in your country taxes are probably spent on better things, over here most of it is spent on defense from an enemy that doesn't exist, so that has probably helped me form my current views, that government turns anything it touches to shit.