A fun, visual way to look at society and taxes could be like this (though it requires some imagination) :
Think of a large square representing society. In this square, you have lots of smaller areas, tiny circles, representing private stuff (property etc). One of these tiny circles represents your stuff. In your day to day life - if you go to work or to a cafè or something, you step out of your circle and spend time in the space between circles - or perhaps into another small circle. You probably spend a significant amount of your life outside your own circle.
If everyone pays less taxes, the space between the circles is gonna get shittier. If that also means everyone has more money to spend, that would mean the circles might get a little bigger and nicer. You'd still have the problem that whenever you step out of your somewhat nicer circle, the area between circles is shittier. The money tied up in other people's circles is won't do you as much good as money in the space between circles because you got no direct access to it.
BUT the reality of it might be that you pay less taxes AND people don't get more money. In a society that creates winners and losers, the money aggregates with a rich minority. They will have bigger, nicer little circles and they will be completely cut off from you. The smaller circles shrink to feed the few big ones. Now the area between circles is shittier and the median circle is also shittier.
It's just a big square of shit dotted with little shit circles.
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