Taxes are /one of/ the prices we pay to live in a partially-civilized partially-capitalist society. We are not aware of non-hypothetical long-term widespread h

Taxes are /one of/ the prices we pay to live in a partially-civilized partially-capitalist society. We are not aware of non-hypothetical long-term widespread high standard of living completely non-capitalist societies (yes, that's a bunch of qualifiers), but there is certainly a range of taxation, legal and social policies that work to varying degrees of success.