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>It is necessary to tax and provide basic needs.
Why is that? Why should one man be FORCED to provide for another? Be FORCED to help someone he doesn't even know?
The distinction here, one that is avoided many times, is voluntary VS forced.
There is nothing wrong with helping a fellow man in need if you sympathies with him, but there is something horribly wrong when a society, a government, adopts the policy to FORCE a man to help another without his voluntary consent.
This is the distinction between charity and welfare, the distinction between voluntary and forced, between the moral and immoral.
The willingness of whether to part 50% of your profit to government tax or to a charity are two acts as different as heaven and earth. The first would meant that you accept the premise that your work and the fruit of your labor belongs to the society, and the 50% you gain are what you are allowed to keep only by the permission of the society. The second act would have meant you own all the fruit of your labor and that because you value those who struggles in life you are willing to help them as much as you can. The first makes you a slave, the second a generous man.
>I just don't see what is so wrong with being the giant company in your industry that most people turn to. Why is it such a crime to be successful?
>Why is it so important that everyone be even?
That's the result of the philosophical view of altruism and socialism as a political collateral. In a free society where individual rights recognized, an individual's achievement is recognized by the society as belonging solely to him, because he is the one that produced it, thus, earned it. In a socialism state, any achievement is recognized erroneously as produced by the society as a whole. Thus, EVERYONE, with no distinction between whether they earned the right or not, is regarded as having a right/claim to any achievements. Thus, under this view, if someone is rich/successful, why he must have stolen all the shares that should have belonged to the poor by some mysterious and scandalous way, because after all, if all men have a claim on all achievement, shouldn't everyone be equally rich?
Socialism, or Statism, in a more generalized term, dates back to prehistorical times. It's basically the savages' tribal notion of politics when they cannot grasp the concept of individuality.