Unless you don’t believe in value for value. I thought that’s why we were all here.

One example of very many: Biden passed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill in 2021 with $7.6 BILLION set aside for electric car chargers. A grand total of 0 new chargers were built with that funding. Where did all that money go? Any free market value-for-value business that attempted this would go out of business almost immediately. Compulsion removes the free-market feedback. Also, when 16th Amendment was passed in 1909 legalizing income taxes in USA, taxes were initially 2%. So your metric for measuring whats appropriate is a subjective ever-shifting goalpost. Lastly, society was thriving before income taxes. The gold standard between the civil war and WWI produced most of our technologies today such as internal combustion engine, electricity, cameras, television, telephone, etc etc. All that without compulsory taxes. Put down the philosophy books and pick up a history book