You don't ever really own anything. The natural state is that some bandit with more guns comes and takes it from you, and if you want to possess something you

You don't ever really own anything. The natural state is that some bandit with more guns comes and takes it from you, and if you want to possess something you better be the bigger bandit. Feudalism and the modern tax-supported state are two approaches to avoiding constant conflict. With feudalism, the king protects your holdings, and in return you owe him military service to support this protection. With a modern nation-state, the state holds a monopoly on physical violence, and you pay taxes to the state so they can maintain a standing army and legal system to enforce your property rights. Debates over which form of taxation is best are better framed in economic terms rather than moral terms. Which forms of taxation encourage beneficial pro-social behavior and discourage anti-social behavior? There's a good argument that wealth taxes (particularly when taxing natural resources like land, data, the electromagnetic spectrum, CO2 emissions, or pollution) are much more effective at this than income taxes.