@Adirondackwannabe “Taxes don’t add any value to anything or provide a useful service or meet any needs. They’re just a way for gov’t to draw funds.”
Would that this were true, as nobody wants to have to pay huge tax bills. But government, alas, does do useful things like keep foreign enemies from killing us and stealing everything we’ve got, building roads, providing our kids educations, making sure our food supply is safe and much, much more. These things cost money.
If you truly yearn for a paradise without taxes, move to Somalia. They have no government and no taxes. I understand it is a conservative’s paradise. Because there are no taxes, everyone there is fabulously wealthy. Well, per person, they make a little over $600 per year, and most of that it made by a small handful of pirates and scam artists. But hey, they don’t have to pay taxes, so they get to keep all $600 if nobody steals it from them.
Realistically, taxes can be too high and starve growth, or two low and also destroy growth. There are things that government provides that contribute to the common good. When we starve investment in our infrastructure, our education, our public safety and our safety net we all suffer as a consequence. We shut off growth for the future just as surely as a corporation does when greedy owners take too much from the firm and refuse to invest in its future.