Louis XVI Louis the Sixteenth.
Under L'ancien regime, as it was called from Louis XI through Louis XVI, the king paid no taxes. The nobility paid no taxes. The clergy paid no taxes. All these were supported by the peasants and the bourgeoise (townspeople). The theory was that God made people what they were and this should not be questioned. Just as sirs suggests that businesses not be taxed, because they are everyone's employer and they won;t hire so many people if they are taxed.
The reason to tax them, of course, is that is where the money is. It does little good to tax the poor, as they have nothing. It is also true that the government provides all manner of facilities to help businesses sell and distribute their products. There is a tendency of those who pay taxes to want others to also pay their fare share. If this is not done, social disturbance always seems to ensue.
My remark (gee, i HATE to explain humor) was that Loius XVI's policy went over really well. This was an IRONIC statement, because the opposite is true. The poor, enraged by yet another raise in taxes to finance yet another useless war, got their pitchforks, muskets, hunting rifles and handmade lances and overthrew Louis XVI and had him beheaded, along with his nasty Austrian wife and several other mambers of the royal family, though unfortunately not all of them. There was a King Louis XVIII after Emperor Napoleon I.
Look, Guillotte invented the Gullotine AFTER the French Revolution as a way of making executions more humane than hanging, the garotte and the giant axe, all of which were prone to missing their mark and therefore more cruel.
Unfortunately, the guillotine was also far more efficient, as it was a lot less time-consuming. This meant that more people could be executed for disagreeing with Robespierre, and were beheaded. Eventually, Robespierre was beheaded himself and the Reigh of Treeor came to an end.
If you don't understand the French Revolution, you don't understand politics, period. No one should allow you to be treated as an expert.