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A Boring Dystopia
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There are two actual issues you're just glossing over here.
Tax burden lies mostly on the middle class due to a failure by society (in the US at least) to tax the richest among us. It doesn't help that we tax things they can hide and avoid, meanwhile their wealth appears elsewhere.
Tax allocation doesn't go to the correct places. This one is largely true but it also depends on the person's individual ideas about what public money should support.
Taxation isn't just the best possible means to make society better overall, it's the best way to represent collective ownership via capitalism. Look up the "Land Value Tax" if you're curious how that would actually work.
You misunderstand what I mean. The reason taxes don't work is because governments are inherently corruptible and thus can't be trusted with our tax money. We need a decentralized, incorruptible system that can't be wrecked or stolen from before we can talk about putting our money into anything substantial.