Just to clarify a bit, ownership is an emergent property of violence. My ownership of something - my ability to control its use - is contingent upon my ability to prevent its theft. While in theory we can all agree to not steal things from one another, any sufficiently large group will have someone who is sociopathic, and is ultimately only controlled by the potential for violence. If you scale that up enough, you have the state taking a monopoly on violence and therefore ownership being contingent upon the actions of the state. The state needs funding to do this, and so it finds different ways of raising funds through taxation and fees (unpaid volunteer enforcement mechanisms are not scalable, either). In a just state, the sovereign authority (the law, or the people, or the “few”) attempts to relate much taxation to the very services that taxation supports.
You can’t own something, really, except through brute force or the abstraction of law.
