I will only quote two Noble Prize winning economists: John Kenneth Gailbraith and John Maynard Keynes. Keynes monetary policies help pull the US out of the Depression. Keynes said: "Capitalism is this extraordinary and mythical belief that the most greediest, meanest, and selfish of men will somehow work for the benefit of us all..." It don't and will never work that way. Government intervenes to prevent these kings from amassing all wealth and power. The vector force of capitalism is eventual slavery for all the workers, paradise, commerce and kingdoms only for the rich. Without government capitalism will try to return to feudalism. My second quote is from JKG: " We have income because of government, not in spite of it." This was suppose to be the lesson from 9/11. We need firefighters, and police, and intelligence agencies, and OSHA, and the military, and teachers, and national health care to secure commerce and civilization. Taxes are also income to many; their only income. More importantly, when the capitalists have the power to raise prices to satisfy for their relentless greed they impose "taxes" on the poor. The profits and prices the oil companies make are taxes on us who pay at the pump- that is what they are, taxes. When the buses raise the price of their fares on fix income riders, that is a tax. Bill Gates and the Koch brothers owe their fortunes to what government has given them: clean water that did not kill them at age five, potable food that did not kill them at age 13, basic education so they could use their minds to create new ideas, police and security that kept them alive in their persons and protective of their basic valuables, military that kept them out of constant war and chaos in their faces with the forces dedicated to destroy them and democracy, immunizations and basic medical care to live long enough to become rich, a justice system that did not jail them because they are simply white, or Christian, or rich because it is primarily on their side.
Democracy will truly come about only when the Government has an equal interest in the fate of all its citizens- not for one and not another, but for all..