If you don't like tax, you can wonder what your life would have been if you grew up in a country with no infrastructure, education, healthcare and so on... Paying 50% in tax seems like a perfectly good deal considering that everything I own today, I owe it to my fellow citizens who paid tax.

how would police investigate random people for hypothetical crimes they need to make up to justify their job and shoot them when they pull out their wallet if they werent overfunded?

It's a fact though, it's how it worked since basically as long as we lived in communities. You don't need an IQ over 100 to open an history book, you should give it a try

Exactly. Top taxpayers already pay a lot (with all sin taxes, council taxes, VAT, corporate, income, CGT... sometimes even 75%). It is not fair to raise taxes even higher. In fact, governments should learn how to operate with way less.