I think ops have a valid point, even though the government need tax to fund capital expenses, this is a clear indication of over-taxation because, from the ops point of view, there is no justification to pay income tax as a salary earner because, at the back door, you still pay value added tax on your expenses and necessities.
The government have indeed robbed the citizens in multiple ways, just as we have tax invaders as citizens the same way we have tax robbers from the government and its agents who impose multiple taxes on citizens.
The government tax the citizens, but the citiz.end are still living good. Can you compare a country that highly tax their citizens but the citizens are living good and quality lives to a country in Africa or Asia that have bad economy andmore people living with poverty? What I see about this is that the guy does not know how those countries that are not developed are like as they pay little tax and yet more people are uneducated and more are unemployed.
Let us take United Kingdom as an example. They pay high tax. But why are people from other continents like Africa and Asia leave their countries permanently to live there after the high tax thru are paying in UK? If the person, I mean the OP is from a country like UK, probably he did not know the benefit. Let him go to Africa or Asia and see how things are like there to know that paying tax is not what that really matters, but good living.