Larry the Legend wrote:
Sorry, but government collects neither rents, royalties nor grazing fees. Government collects taxes, that government sets arbitrarily, and the people are forced to pay at the point of a gun, if necessary. In reality, there are literally hundreds of taxes paid by all of us, every day. We just don't see it. Would you like an incomplete list? It's incomplete because it's impossible to find them all in the millions of pages of laws and statutes preserved in the Congressional archives.
Taxes are involuntary fees levied on individuals or corporations and enforced by a government entity - whether local, regional or national - in order to finance government activities.
Any voluntary payment to a government would not be a tax.