Lobbying and marketing. Police make money and provide services for profitable corporations. Taxes cost profitable corporations money, except when they're real

Lobbying and marketing. Police make money and provide services for profitable corporations. Taxes cost profitable corporations money, except when they're really annoying to deal with, in which case they give money to a small group of corporations. So taxes are designed to be as irritating and painful as possible, and are continually attacked, whereas police are defended.