An empire in decline is historically more morally degenerate and bloated by endless bureaucracy that feeds off the declining numbers of productive enterprises they can tax.

Society and the State are not the same. How can it be true that taxation is vitally important to make society function then?

Voluntary funding through free markets under common law agreed upon by all parties in contractual relationships.

The IRS is in the USA.

You can't choose where tax goes to. One penny for child murder to one dollar for cancer research is still not making the child murder acceptable. With that ratio the US would never wage war.

Taxation is not voluntary and is deployed with violence. The US also wants control of the world's financial institutions to be able to tax any US person in the world without too much difficulty.

Because when the Fed sends trillions of dollars into the money supply and the federal and State governments create budgets they are less responsible than people doing their best to give the minimal required amount that won't get goons sent to their house to kidnap them?

If you think the State, choosing to ignore certain negative externalities through regulations — like water pollution — by not holding the guilty parties accountable and pushing up pollution targets, is going to get you clean water, as opposed to any other system where accountability is not distorted by coercitive rules that are almost impossible to challenge: I don't know how any more naive that position could be. When pollution is not associated with having to pay for cleanup and the financial consequences are negligible, even the stock market picks up on it and publicised major pollution events don't mean a company's valuation plummets.

I didn't know weather forecasts and bridges were more difficult for people not paid by taxes.