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Only possible thanks to government policy wielded through regulatory capture. Not a free market outcome.

Ok then. What would taxes look like in a "free market" where "no one is entitled to anything"?

There would be no taxes, only voluntary cooperation.

What is this ideal world, I want to live in it.

Reality and all of history tells us that doesn't work at scale.

The US used to have very little taxation. It worked fine then. Ever increasing government reach wasn't always the norm.

When was this "very little taxation that worked"?