So I guess the answer is it depends what are the tax revenue is being spent on - are they being spent on building or mantaining civilization or on other things

So I guess the answer is it depends what are the tax revenue is being spent on - are they being spent on building or mantaining civilization or on other things (like enriching friends lobbyists and funders, mantaining a particular political party's power etc.). I think the answer in all major nations is that it's being spent on a mixture of both. That taxation is sometimes theft and and other times not. I think this article becomes a simplistic propoganda piece because it asks a simplistic question and does a simplistic analysis. And it thereby misses and obscures the deeper debate going on.