My concern is whether Taxation as an institute, was created primarily for the social benefit of others (for example, as mentioned in the Old Testament about "tithing"), or was it first created in England for the purpose of feudalism, control and power. As I mentioned in the question, we can definitely see those two purposes in the reading, but I'm more interested in finding the main reason. Was the use of taxation to control poor landowners, was a "new way" of using an "old technique" aggressively to gain power? Or was it just an application of what was already familiar?

-- InbarAsif - 15 Sep 2014