@ralph @RickiTarr I thought that the origins of tax systems stem from the need to pool resources at mass scale, in a systemic manner. Hunter Gathers didn't need them as they did not require such large scale resource pooling. Chiefdoms tended to require some sort of systemic resource pooling but not at the large scale of states so they tended to opt for informal taxation. States, on the other hand, needed resource pooling in both a systemic way and at mass scale. Henceforth, what pretty much all states have tax systems, barring very few exceptions, and these few exceptions would have very specific reasons to not have taxes.