This is a disingenuous red herring.
It's one thing to claim that some amount of taxes to finance public spending can be benefitial to society.
It's an entirely different thing to claim that taxing remote work brings any benefit to society.
I mean, there's already a progressive income tax. Why should society create incentives to commute to work?
True -- which explains why the following rhetorical question is indeed a RED HERRING.
> Examples of large, modern societies flourishing without the use of taxation?
No one has suggested zero taxation anywhere in the thread that I can find...
This is a disingenuous red herring.
It's one thing to claim that some amount of taxes to finance public spending can be benefitial to society.
It's an entirely different thing to claim that taxing remote work brings any benefit to society.