If you are not financially independent then taxation (on income and consumption) directly reduces your ability to get to such a state. If you are financially i

If you are not financially independent then taxation (on income and consumption) directly reduces your ability to get to such a state. If you are financially independent then it reduces the number, or type of activities/goods you can partake in or buy. I offer without proof the claim that being free in the economic sense is a far greater determinant of happiness.