[JRandomFreeper]

Endowments and investments work for other organizations, as just one example. Fee for services is another.

Why always with the pointing guns at people and demanding cash?

Everybody falls back on taxes because Hammurabi and his strong-men ilk thousands of years ago started it, and nothing else has been tried.

/johnny

[arrogantsob]

Taxes are necessary in many cases because of the “free rider” phenomenon. If there were a better and more reliable way of funding government it would have been found in the thousands of years of civilization.

Hammurabi was in no way the first or even close to the first to fund governments by taxation.

Representative government uses taxation, it is one of the defining aspects of sovereignty.

Our Revolution was not fought to stop taxes but because there was no representation of the Colonies in Parliament. Had we been granted Members of Parliament in some fashion there would likely have been no revolt, at least at that time.