Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
In Britain the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport housing and education are over centralised.
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.