The heart of this is what you think tax is. If you just think it's the government stealing your stuff, then it seems very unfair to have your stuff taxed after

The heart of this is what you think tax is. If you just think it's the government stealing your stuff, then it seems very unfair to have your stuff taxed after you die. But what tax is, under another lens, is a way to divert the capacity of a state to social ends. Everything from the military to the police to prisons and the justice system is what enables you to live in peace and accumulate stuff in the first place. Those are social goods. So how do you fund this spending? How do you incentivize other people to protect your house? Well, the solution of tax is they take a little bit of your stuff over time, in a predictable way, according to rules that are pre-agreed and can be changed with consensus.