"Imagine if from those 160.000 signups they could get 5.000 people to pay $1000 in taxes per year" Wasn't the point of founding this country to get away from t

"Imagine if from those 160.000 signups they could get 5.000 people to pay $1000 in taxes per year" Wasn't the point of founding this country to get away from taxes? How ironic