There’s a reason we quit the bartering system. Because someone’s item may not be as valuable as it is to them as it realistically is. Someone could try to trade a house carriage for a house
Or if someone desperately needed something like food someone could easily take advantage of that situation and take a very valuable item that belonged to said person in exchange for food because that person desperately needed it
Because things have fixed monetary value that is something that can no longer happen
Without taxes, we wouldn’t have a fire department police department to enforce rules. We wouldn’t have government assistance: food stamps, Medicaid. We wouldn’t have a post office. We wouldn’t have a courthouse. We wouldn’t have programs that give out free food to homeless people or roads or traffic lights
