straight up, your initial comment can just replace "tax" and "fiat" and still work, which would indicate that there's something off.

More importantly, taxes are MAGNITUDES larger in contemporary Western soc than the extractive benefit from fiat currencies. E.g., my Twitter interaction w Larry Lepard:

I also don't know what part of the world you live where taxes neatly/accurately/appropriately "provide citizens with goods and services." And to the extent they do, your entire thesis is based on a disingenuous comparison... what, fiat money doesn't provide the services of a monetary system (acceptably well)?