>>478647Taxation isn't done for abstract purposes. The claims of any state don't really regard money in the way the inferiors do. The state holds the bank - it can, if it so decrees, create "free money" and assign who wins and who loses. This is not done without consequences, but it has always been the goal of states regarding their currency.
Ultimately the state requires its taxes not in money - money it issues - but in the labor and technology that tax represents. That is, states impose taxation so that they can extract useful things from the populace, in one way or another. The particular entry on a ledger is less relevant than the uses a state, or any institution, have for that abstraction. The same is true of firms in such a commanding position that they become de facto states unto themselves. The leading capitalists do not see themselves as producers, but as princes, kings, or less nobility seeking to climb the ladder. The focus on home economics is a marker of who is relegated to being a producer and who is in any position to possess political agency the state would regard. The proprietors do not pay tax in the sense that a home owning producer, a "fallow" citizen, pays taxes. For the proprietor, they are always seeking to win the game of capitalism and see the threat to their existence not in abstract money, but in particular claims to solid wealth - that is, proprietors see their interest in their property, rather than the money that the property ostensibly represents. The proprietors have long considered money as a conspiracy against them, and they are entirely correct in that the merchants and financiers typically work against the lesser proprietors. The aims of the producers - here the merchants and financiers who represent productive capital - are not so much to become proprietors much like the nobility, but to circumvent the system entirely and rule through the monarchy as courtiers, experts, and so on who are indispensible. This is how the commoners were able to accrue a majority share of the wealth and begin the long process of dispossessing the proprietors, and it has been the aim of the proprietors in this alliance to turn the producers - now the technocrats in our time - against labor and the lowest class excessively. Since this suits the producers who despise the "useless eaters" for various reasons, the alliance has remained in place. At this point, whatever is purportedly the tax in money is secondary. What is most necessary is that the ordering of society does not change, that the classes calcify into castes, and the castes with a stake in the aristocratic regime continuously seek to rise within a rigged game. All of the incentives of the producers and proprietors are set up to ensure they will never deviate from this, because doing that would question the basis for their caste's position in society, and without that, their fate is tied to the losers - the majority of humanity.
For the lower castes - the workers and the lowest classes - the idea that taxes are ever going to do anything but keep them at the edge of poverty seems like some sort of cruel joke. Their experience is that any existence independent of the ruling institutions is constantly destroyed, as this is the stated world-historical purpose of state society. Whatever wealth they hold for themselves is constantly taken by some new scam, whether it comes from state taxation or private property. The lowest class do not even possess the worth of social proof, and are invariably attacked by all other classes unless the situation is dire. For both of these classes, taxes are little more than a reminder that they will never be free from society. The entire society is set up deliberately to make taxes and debts unpayable, because if those conditions were ever removed, then the worker would enter social status he did not "earn". The social proof, the lump of horseflesh workers are trained to kill for, is only allowed to keep them in this limited purview. They will never be capitalists/producers or proprietors, and the view of labor is much like the view of the proprietors in that they view society correctly as a menace to be avoided and their personal stake as greater than any abstraction.
The real funding stream isn't finance, but the command of human beings. This command is not just of their labor, but of the technology humans produce. It really works this way for everyone who knows what money is and what rules humanity, what the interests are. Mostly, repeated lying about the nature of money is a way for the favored interest to shout "DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE" and dare anyone to act as if they received the death threat that this entailed. Anyone who does is attacked for "lashing out", and by doing so, the siege that is the default state of the human race continues. Forever.