First of all, I do not recognize the legitimacy of any government or any of their claims to jurisdiction. Second of all, if I want to protect my property from foreign invaders I should just be able to voluntarily pay a fee to a private defense agency, instead of have the government force me to pay them to provide that service. Okay I will concede that taxation is not what defines government, hmm need to think of something else that defines it. A monopoly on 'legitimate' violence I guess? This would mean government inherently has the ability to tax, but may not implement it. I would love to see an experiment in anarcho-capitalism too .