Taxation is nothing more than organized theft. Don't believe me? Try not paying your taxes and see what happens. Men with guns show up and demand payment and if you can't, you get locked in a government cage (also known as prison for those keeping score at home). When you tell people that and tell them you are for little to no taxes, they act like you're greedy, yet it is somehow not greedy to think that you are entitled to the work of someone else...strange how that works. To them, wasting $.70 on every dollar to government bureaucracy is somehow charity and noble. Government will even go as far as banning private charity if it is more effective than government, I mean government can't have any competition after all. People might actually wake up and decide they are tired of being slaves! We can't have any of that!
Back on topic, I think it comes down to two different philosophies. On the one hand, you have liberty oriented people who tend to view civil liberty as the most important aspect of human interaction. These people believe that true freedom only exists at the individual level and only free individuals can be truly free. To the freedom-loving individual, good ideas don't require force or aggression.
The other group are collectivists/authoritarians. In their view, we should be divided into groups and the interests of these groups should be pitted against one another (black vs. Hispanic, white vs. black, religious vs. non-religious, liberal vs. conservative, old vs. young, men vs. women, and on and on). The collectivist/authoritarian believes that force and aggression should govern human relationships. We must also always have a constant "enemy," whether it be terrorists abroad or another powerful nation. Fear is what the authoritarian depends on to keep people from questioning the loss of civil liberties. Furthermore, there will be constant appeals to the common good and only giving up a little bit of liberty in the name of safety. The collectivist/authoritarian is also concerned with those who commit "wrong think," which is anybody who questions the prevailing narrative of the all powerful state and their many branches. To support such a system and to support the greedy political class requires a lot of revenue and, thus, taxation is essential. A powerful and tyrannical state fears nothing more than a population that doesn't need them. Therfore, things like poverty and dependence are vital to the survival of the authoritarian. The true purpose of such dependency systems is to keep people dependent on government and the political class. Hopefully this clears things up!
Before I get attacked by an angry mob of progressive liberals, let me say that the Republican Party follows the collectivist/authoritarian philosophy, as do many conservatives.