The overbearing tax burden at the time should be considered as one of the contributing factors. In the seventh century the armies of Muhammad, armed with the Koran and the sword, swept through the Middle East, North Africa and Spain seizing a large portion of the Roman Empire. Taxes were used as a stimulus to conversion. Christianity almost vanished from the Islamic world as many accepted Islam to avoid taxes. King John was confronted by his rebel barons at Runnymede in June 1215 and agreed to the Magna Carta prohibiting arbitrary taxation by government.
Desperate times provoke dire action.
Analysts have traced the fall of Imperial Spain to tax troubles. The road to serfdom was similar in both Rome and Russia where overtaxed peasants accepted bondage to large landowners to avoid taxes. The communist, after destroying the ruling class, simply took away the first option. Oppressive taxation in France contributed as much to the defeat of Napoleon as the Russian winter or the British at Waterloo. It was during this anti-income tax period that the French gave the Statue of Liberty to America.