When you study the word "tax" in the legal dictionaries, if you study it deeply enough, you will find that it equates to "fraud."
Exactly.
The word has a similar etymology and background as the word "extortion".
"You got a nice society there... it would be sad if something bad happened to it..."
The walking dead have a very fitting analogy of a group of people (and their boss) who require payments ... or else...