Got You now. But: if they find another way financing their growing power society still won't improve. And they still will need more tax revenues as their bureaucray and activities are growing without having a limit.

They have no desire to stop. That's the actual problem. The way to stop the theft is to build out parallel economic structures that they can't tap into.

If there were a desire to steal less from the public, there are already plenty of mechanisms that they could be using.