I'm trying to find documentation around the rationale of Capital Gains Tax and how it came to be a thing.

More and more I'm asking "why" about taxes... I can't believe how my whole life I'd just accepted all these taxes as if they're a law of nature without questioning their justification.

CGT is basically enforced donations to the government. I read how CGT was introduced so that it share the burden that had been covered my Income Tax only up until that point. As if Tax as a whole is some given thing. It's all just so annoying.

If the government provides certain services, let me opt in and pay for the value I get. V4V. wtf is this arbitrary percentage of gains nonsense.