Taxation doesn't actually pay for much these days.
Under the current economic model, the central banks print the money and the government loans the money from them.
Whenever the government wants to spend money they get new money "printed"(it's mostly digital now that's just a stand in word)
Taxes get removed from circulation to control the inflation.
Mafia do not have a monopoly on violence or currency, that's really the only difference between the state and a large organised crime gang.
Taxation does pay for stuff, it’s not a small amount of the government’s revenue, in Ireland anyways
Both the mafia and the government don’t respect the NAP (Non Aggression Principle) and relies on coercion which underpins both these organisations. I guess that’s the fundamental point.
They may go about it in slightly different ways but ultimately they have characteristics more similar than we’d like
Especially of the fact that none of them have many moral qualms with the general result of their organisations and live in ignorant bliss while others suffer
