As a Finance and IT guy living in Asia, I would love to ask my fellow Europeans: When did imposing taxes in order to achieve a certain goal, that could not be achieved by regulatory means did become more important than PRODUCING valuable goods and services?

When did sociologists and polticial "sciences" people were declared equal to us engineers? Everyone point please at ONE thing surrounding them, that was developed by these people and you say "Yes, I want to buy this, it improves my life"