Why are you taking Marxist as an insult? Maybe that's your first issue, it's an accurate label for someone who believes in the labor theory of value which is something Marx came up.

And yes, economists are human of course (unless they're now AI). Not sure how that changes what I said. Just because they disagree doesn't mean what they do isn't better than throwing your hands up and saying it can't be done.

Again, you asserted:

> There definitely are ways to look at each tax and determine its worth, in a non-partisan way.

You then asserted those are:

> Academic panels, economists writing papers on impacts of various policies like rent control, monetary policy, and yes, taxes.

But Marx himself is an example of that process - an economist, writing papers on all this. You clearly don't agree with his conclusions, so now we're... right back where we started?