Can I challenge your view a bit? Yes, the rulers are double-dipping and even quadruple-dipping. But if you think about it, why are taxes so incredibly complicated, like there is not a single thing you can do that isn't taxed?
That is because taxation is not the main act, it is only the supportive act. The main act is creating currency from nothing. That is how the rulers get their wealth and finance their government. If you're paying taxes through your nose and think I'm being ridiculous by saying it's only a supportive act, think about this: Why is it so important that you and everybody else pay taxes to the government on your income and everything else, when the government can just print as much money as they need?
It is because the money would be worthless without the complicated taxation system. The money origins from the government (it says as much on the bills, even has a signature), and the only way to make anybody actually want that money is to force them to pay it to the government. So that's why there's so many and unavoidable taxes. If you work for a living you have to pay taxes in the government money - so naturally you'll want your wages in government money. If you make business, it's the same thing. And so on.
Taxes is the only way that the government can create demand for their worthless money, so that's why you have them.
I don't really see how what you say is a challenge of my views because I don't disagree with what you're saying
if anything I'll admit that it took me way to long to really grasp how taxes "close the circuit" of the money cycle (or as you say: "Taxes is the only way that the government can create demand for their worthless money, so that's why you have them.")
But I'm considering some additional (very empirical/pragmatic things): the multiple-fold dipping of "energy" is why it's all fractional reserve banking systems (fractions, or quotients, or rational numbers up until Euler's constant and financial calculi... but I say this to tell about the depth at which I'm trying to think about this)
I suppose my larger point is that given that the main act of creation from nothing ("financial alchemy"?) should suffice for well run states (i.e. governments but I can talk still more precisely about this) to get all their energetic needs (i.e. monetary i.e.cash and currencies) but because complex reasons (but mostly due to corruption in various forms?) it doesn't work and taxes are needed
The logic is that fiat money continually loses value due to inflation, which means that most people want to avoid it if they had the option. The stability that the central bank guarantees is that the currency will continue decrease in value, until it becomes exponential and out of control. Then a currency reform is conducted. The central banks do not try to hide that their goal is inflation, although they aren't very honest about the rate of inflation.
I'd say there would be no demand at all for government fiat currency, unless they forced people to use it. In ancient Rome the emperor just diluted the silver coins with other metals and tried to force people to accept it at face value. Then in much of history there was no fiat money to speak of, rulers demanded their tributes in gold or hard goods. But if you demand tributes (taxes) in a currency that only you emit, there will be a demand on that currency.
In the real world, we see this in many countries in the world, where as the government does not tightly control the population and their tax payments, they are not able to protect the value of their currency, and their people will use foreign fiat currency as much as they can.
That is because taxation is not the main act, it is only the supportive act. The main act is creating currency from nothing. That is how the rulers get their wealth and finance their government. If you're paying taxes through your nose and think I'm being ridiculous by saying it's only a supportive act, think about this: Why is it so important that you and everybody else pay taxes to the government on your income and everything else, when the government can just print as much money as they need?
It is because the money would be worthless without the complicated taxation system. The money origins from the government (it says as much on the bills, even has a signature), and the only way to make anybody actually want that money is to force them to pay it to the government. So that's why there's so many and unavoidable taxes. If you work for a living you have to pay taxes in the government money - so naturally you'll want your wages in government money. If you make business, it's the same thing. And so on.
Taxes is the only way that the government can create demand for their worthless money, so that's why you have them.