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[Gunax]

If the taxes are performed to make the economy just or fairer (as opposed to finding public necessities), possibly.

I understand the absurdity of it. We had taxes for a long time before socialism. And we obviously need taxes.

But a long-term criticism of the welfare state has been that it co-opted taxes from being a means to fund public services to a means to reward/rebalance/rework society towards politically favoured groups.