There’s a difference between a tax, and an income tax. But you are correct about the fish (assuming that that’s the occasion you referred to). I have no issue with fee based taxes based on a good or service performed (ie. toll road, or postage, court filing fees, etc.). I do, however, have a huge problem with an income tax, which is satanic in its very nature. Socialism is evil (the one and ONLY reason for an income tax, to punish/discourage producers and multiply moochers), and flies in the face of the “law of the harvest”: You reap what you sow.
I have no theological position on income taxes. And without them there would be no ability for the country to fund a modern military which is fine with a lot of people. They belong to those things “which belong to Caesar” as for as I can see.
But, if you want a modern military, you will have to have an income tax. If you don’t then getting away from it is reasonable.