This thing is... crazy. We'd not need a currency if it weren't for taxes... My question is, does this make sense to anyone with a brain? > Taxes are essential! Please don’t get the impression that taxes are unimportant. Taxes are what drive the entire monetary system to begin with. Without a money tax on a population, that population would have little use for a specific currency, and indeed it is unlikely a market could function at all in the way we know it.