Once you have universal suffrage to elect government, tax revenues cease to be about funding essential services but become a slush fund for the elected to use to bribe voters. Voters understand this and elections become auctions where votes are sold to the highest bidder. Voters then, increasingly expect others (via the State) to provide for them what they do not provide for themselves, and so become increasingly dependent on the State which becomes empowered whilst ‘We The People’ become infantilised and impotent.