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This isn't necessarily true and making this argument gives people an easy way to refute the idea of raising taxes.
Kropotkin conveyed it best:
We need more systemic change. Granted, a tax policy could be permanent systemic change, but without corresponding political and economic change it's just as likely to be undone immediately.