you don't pay tax because the government controls the issuing of money.
You pay tax because if you don't some large men will come to your house and make you pay tax.
this isn't a knock on the system; without some sort of centralised governments things tend to fall apart and then recreate themselves again. Even in the most lawless places someone steps in to perform the role, and usually they're much worse than a legal system with checks and balances.
Also important to keep in mind that, to a good degree at least in liberal democracies, the large men that come to make you pay tax exist because your neighbors think they should exist.
Every human, everywhere must contend with large men coming and taking their stuff.
I have very little to no first hand experience with alternatives to liberal democracy. Persuading my neighbors to take more or less seems a whole lot easier than any of the alternatives I'm aware of.
You pay tax because if you don't some large men will come to your house and make you pay tax.
this isn't a knock on the system; without some sort of centralised governments things tend to fall apart and then recreate themselves again. Even in the most lawless places someone steps in to perform the role, and usually they're much worse than a legal system with checks and balances.