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There are only so many ways to pay for the commons.

1. One is commissions from the activity created by the market created by the institutions including that of law. This can be either sales or income.
Income causes the LEAST interference in the pricing system and human behavior.
Sales too much influence on both.,

2. The other is payment for services: We either pay for services directly allocated to us, in itemized fashion every year;
Or
We use direct economic democracy with the budgets for each thing we need to finance, and we individually allocate our funds to whatever we wish, until all funds are allocated.

The problem with the second one is that people will try to game it and try to free ride on it.

Progressive taxation means the wealthy pay for nearly all taxes, which is how america works despite the rancor of the left, and more than half of the people free ride on the taxes paid by the wealthy – given only half us contribute meaningfully to taxes, and of those who do almost all are white males over 35.