why would be paying so much for taxes without the constitution?

Answer 1

Your question leaves me gasping in my attempt to interpret what you actually mean to ask. I will just say that much of what we pay in taxes is, in my opinion, not Constitutional. Much of what we pay in taxes goes to the federal and state bureaucracies, and I believe they are unjustified under the Constitution. The federal powers are spelled out very clearly in the Constitution, and then the Tenth Amendment says, in effect, the rest of life is for the States to decide, OR THE PEOPLE. Then it becomes the state Constitution which should have the bulk of the influence on people's lives. This is correct, as it is so very much easier for people to gather the political clout to change things at the state level as compared to the federal.

We should, realistically, be paying more in state taxes than in federal, if any taxes at all are necessary. They may not be, after all; it is possible the state government could function as a profit-making organization in terms of custody of certain natural resources (state parks, et al.) and infrastructure, or at least like a non-profit foundation. It does not need to take on every social task everywhere. Smaller is inevitably better in terms of government structures, and so the county, the city, and ultimately, the individual, are the units of significance. And by cutting through the layers in what it states, the Tenth Amendment includes the outline: to the states, or to the people. The individual people. Each to his own choices about whatever does not interfere with other people and their right to their own choices.

Answer 2

In the early years, Britain taxed the colonies heavily. Then the saying "No taxation without representation." Meaning, without a representative or meaning for the taxes, such taxes could not be forced upon the citizens.