It's actually a negative sum game. It costs money to run a tax system, and that money comes out of taxes too. So, as a coercive state with guns, if I want to f

It's actually a negative sum game. It costs money to run a tax system, and that money comes out of taxes too. So, as a coercive state with guns, if I want to fund some program that costs $1M, I would need to tax much more.