If you think of the 90% plus percent that gets skimmed off of the true value of your labor that you get paid as a "wage" as a tax. Then you understand that the taxes we pay for the services received via government as a bargain. Now cut the socialized/externalized cost of fighting more dumb Exxon wars, cleaning up their oil spills, and the chemo treatments for the cancer they cause and funnel that into public health/safety, health care, and education - then we're really talking.