You can pay for the good things voluntarily. If people need to be coerced, then it’s not meant to be. You’ve got cause and effect backwards. The countries that developed complex networks of voluntary trade were the countries that developed wealth to be coveted by tax collectors. Why would tax collectors plunge their fangs into societies that never developed anything? If the IRS suddenly showed up in the Sahara to tax everyone, would the Bedouins suddenly develop an advanced society?

American Income Tax Amendment was in 1913. How’d they ever build the Transcontinental railroad in the 1800s?