So then you agree that we're more a democracy than anything else?
Given that admission, and the fact that failure to pay taxes [particularly property] results in the government taking property (and therefore is not really your property, but 'on loan' from the government) -- Would it be utterly inaccurate to say the current state is also socialist in nature?
With the removal of Senatorial appointment by the states we took a big step towards democracy, same is true with the continual expansion of the electorate. Should the Electoral College be removed or effectively circumvented we would be pretty much a democracy.
Government has always taxed property and always will, that has nothing to do with socialism in which you would have NO private property at all. Even without government you hold property only conditionally. In fact, you hold it more tenuously without government.