That is the other way. Income tax was originally sold to the people as a tax the rich scheme.
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It is practically the same, just a bit less lazy on it's face maybe.
It's closer to the mid-territory where you at least start to ponder "who's gonna pay for it", and you create an elaborate scheme of socialist transfers, assuming your transfers don't change everyones' original incentives.
It's too easy to criticize the "let's print it all" crowd; most of the people are in the socialist technocrat camp - "let me just optimize based on the data and science". And people don't see the similarities.
"Optimize based on data and science" is the euphemism for communist-style planned economy