The problem is that taxation started as a crime with royalty using the military to steal funds from its subjects to fund war.

Trying to legitimise it after that is a difficult ask.

That’s not to say that some tax is used for good things.

no, the entire concept is a crime, a punishment for profit

paying for services is paying for services

they have deliberately muddied the waters around this in order to get a special privilege to ask whatever price they want for funding their hobby horse social manipulation projects and they are therefore ... the worst kind of psychopaths, the ones who pretend to care about the masses, while pocketing a huge chunk of their wealth to pay for this so-called service

there is at least one good historical case, involving the catholic church, where a form of taxation lead to a regression of the wealth and health of a society - that of Iceland in the middle ages

they had a tax, that you had to pay to the chief, and they decided to change the rule so you could pay that tax to the chief you liked, sorta like a form of democracy-by-money

it ended centuries of vendettas and backroom deals and assassinations and war between tribes

then the catholics showed up, and pushed this "tithe" idea on everyone, this was after the Unum Sanctum (which claims that all people are the wards of the church) signed in a papal bull in ... i forget, 1308? and they became effectively the centre of a new oligarchic feudal system and it was back to "i am inigo montoya, you killed my brother, prepare to die" situation, after 300 years without it

if i cannot choose who protects me, then they will not protect me, but simply take as much of my money as i am stupid enough to give them, instead of spending that on weapons and training my guys to go take those bitches out

and that's the result of tax

war

you can't have war without tax, and you can't avoid war with tax