Ever wondered what is the function of "taxation" in a rhetorically constituted ontological community?

Look no further- See Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's (The New Rhetoric)  analysis of the rhetorical concept of 'phoros' (and then to how 'charges' are calculated based on Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and Death). In exactly the same fashion that the 'black'n'silver' New Left constructed a pragmatico-utopian nouveau ethos.