Our statist friends like high taxes for many reasons. They want to finance bigger government, and they also seem to resent successful people, so high tax rates are a win-win policy from their perspective.
They also like high tax rates to micromanage people’s behavior. They urge higher taxes on tobacco because they don’t like smoking. 
They want higher taxes on sugary products because they don’t like overweight people. They impose higher taxes on “adult entertainment” because…umm…let’s simply say they don’t like capitalist acts between consenting adults. And they impose higher taxes on tanning beds because…well, I’m not sure. Maybe they don’t like artificial sun.
Give their compulsion to control other people’s behavior, these leftists are very happy about what’s happened in Berkeley, California. According to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health, a new tax on sugary beverages has led to a significant reduction…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Aug 31, 2016 @ 12:44:25
The reason government increases is because people demand it. As incomes rise they demand more services like education and health. I really do not think the voters seem themselves as statists ( what does this term mean) or left wing.
I can think of right wingers who would support a tax on tobacco and sugar products as it would over the long term REDUCE the demand for health and hence some government services. Ironic huh!
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