Your grasp of history and political theory is lamentable. No matter how you'd like to see it. The state has legitimacy granted to it by those who organize it a

Your grasp of history and political theory is lamentable. No matter how you'd like to see it. The state has legitimacy granted to it by those who organize it and continue to live under its rule until such time as they decide to no longer recognize it, delegitimize its power, and establish a replacement state. But even when this occurs, another state is erected in its place. Taxes have been around so much longer than Old Europe--by about 4000 years. Read some history.