1} Just who is "we"? The modernist statists who think the great society was/is a success? 2} Why do you presume I love Ayn Rand? 3} Is there anyone who "loves/likes" taxes {aside from those who pay none yet reap the benefit therefrom}?  Only a pseudo Marxist would make such an insane statement. 4} As for the "common good" and the "fight v. poverty", by every statistical measure, the great society programs and their progeny have been an abysmal failure. Perhaps its time to let distributism have a LEGITIMATE shot.