Maybe with my limited knowledge I am wrong about this, but it seems like "codified tax collection" as it relates to private property and free markets, at least in the US, is that they designed it to create the illusion of a functioning system. In reality it serves special interests because they can afford to navigate it's complexities, while the general population is held hostage to this system. Secondly, income tax money doesn't appear to actually go to the places it should, like infrastructure, and instead towards unjust wars that are waged to democratize(hold-hostage) countries that don't play along with capitalism.
I think the tax system, in its current state, is an illusion of providing a just system when what it really does is turns a country of free people into wage slaves working for overlords (people with money).
When you think in terms of absolutes you lose precision. We aren’t living in a pure anarchy and therefore the system is providing some quantifiable value.
Instead what’s going on is the system is failing to live up to your ideals, but Democracy isn’t based on any one persons idealistic vision. Instead it’s a compromise between many fundamentally incompatible ideals, as are all institutions it creates. Government is quite literally working as intended, because it’s the result of intentional actions by individuals. You may disagree with a law, regulation, court case, etc but remember someone wrote it.
I think the tax system, in its current state, is an illusion of providing a just system when what it really does is turns a country of free people into wage slaves working for overlords (people with money).