Taxation and money-printing are the fuels that feed the government beast.
Money-printing causes the hidden tax of lost buying power for all the monetary units; it inspires malinvestments, and leads to the boom-bust cycle so well explained by the Austrian School of Economics. But, often, the majority of the population don’t recognize the malfeasance while the government and central bank are engaging in it, most folks only recognize the effects in higher prices, layoffs, and economic depressions.