Is there a way to globally redirect taxonomy paths -- on a pattern? I know there is url alias but what I need to happen is the taxonomy path be redirected to a view. The itemization will be from a tag. This tag basically controls a views output. I want to have that terms URL be redirected to that view page.
As i understand - you want to show some view on taxonomy term page. This view will take term as argument (contextual  filter) and display list of nodes related to it.

For this purpose you can use module Taxonomy Views Integrator:


  The TVI (Taxonomy Views Integrator) module allows selective overriding of taxonomy terms and/or vocabulary with the view of your choice. Using TVI you can easily create custom views to output all terms in X vocabuarly.