This is a very cynical view with which I do not agree. Because essentially, you're saying that the people that founded this country did solely for the purpose of being able to raise taxes. I just don't think that makes any logical sense at all considering what they actually did.
I think you are right. The United States was not founded that way, which is why I suggested in another post that they founders would have added limits on the government’s ability to tax (particularly property) if it had seen what would end up happening.
So, perhaps the US government wasn’t founded for the sole purpose taxation, and one could say that the declaration of independence was strongly against it, but that “representation” qualifier for taxation sure doesn’t seem to have worked out any better than royal tyranny.