Firstly, in the debt based fiat system, one doesn’t need taxes, since the central government can just “print” the money (I.e. issue the additional debt). So taxes are just an additional lever to keep you “enslaved,” whilst productive.

Secondly, under a #Bitcoin standard, ironically, communities do need to pool their money for community services. Since it’s very painful though, communities will need to make tough choices as to what to spend their money on. The original US system was set up to make those decisions from the bottom up with sovereignty in decreasing order: family, community, city, county, state and federal. Of course, corruption has inverted that…