To me its probably something along the lines of a necesarry evil. Without it there'd be no public infrastructue, schools would be severly hampered without the funds injected from taxation and who knows whatever else.

But, i do take exception to the way our tax dollar is wasted in this country. All the govts, be they local council all the way to Canberra are guilty of pissing it away on shoddy projects or worse still, the pollies themselves.