Drawing attention to the coercive nature of taxation does not lead inevitably to any moral judgment about it as "wrong/evil/unjust/improper". Unless you are a consistent anarchist, you must allow for some kind of "legitimate coercion" even with the most minimal government. I'll try to prepare another post on what I think marks the line between legitimate and illegitimate coercion, but you might be interested in this current debate.

My concern here is mostly utilitarian. With all due respect to Professor Liam Murphy's critique of the concept of coercion, the government's role in the economy is sustained by coercion. This coercion upsets price equilibrium and creates inefficiencies. The effects of the interventions ripple throughout the networks of exchange and stages of production.

This may be the world we live in, but it doesn't have to be.