Plenty of conservatives like taxes as an instrument of social engineering and justice, particularly if they feel they are taxed in a way you aren’t. Then, new taxes, because, you know, “fairness.”
Some people just like taxes because they're jealous of ingenuity and capacity to turn a profit. They go through life upset they're not the smartest, the fastest, or the richest. Their wives aren't the prettiest, their car sucks, and they live in some dead end job they hate and they can't understand or fathom why they got where they are in life.
People who learned how to apply themselves and take bold risks are "rotters," spoilers," and "parasites."
Taxes are a way of taking those "spoilers" and "parasites" 'down a peg.'
You know these types - blow out someone else's candle to make their own look brighter.