There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.
Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.
The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.
There cannot be a "good" society until there are "good" men.
Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes.
In America it is the so-called capitalist who is to blame for the fulfillment of Marx's prophecies. Beguiled by the state's siren song of special privilege, the capitalists have abandoned capitalism.