All these systems impose a notion of society though, so your distinction holds little water. I've no idea if the "on-chain governance" crowd like Cosmos, Polka

All these systems impose a notion of society though, so your distinction holds little water. I've no idea if the "on-chain governance" crowd like Cosmos, Polkadot, etc. could politically introduce tools that supported taxation. Any "miner consensus" design like ZCash, Bitcoin, etc. could never introduce such politically contentious upgrades. ZCash's developers have thus de facto spoken definitively against taxation, by defining the voting set to oppose taxation. Taler exchanges do whatever governments permit/encurage banks to do. You might dislike our political system, but clearly Taler adopted a notion of society much closer to the conventional one. As I noted above, Taler could swap their crypto for balance hiding tool or with techniques that support balance hiding blockchains. ZCash cannot disentangle itself from its anti-tax roots.