Dispersing money disperses labor, other than labor that will work together for free or for possible future payoff. They may build a church or a country club or even a business together. They may build a hospital or support a particular charity or civic activity.
Taxes are an attempt to pool money to concentrate labor toward governmentally decided ends.
Insofar as people have any say in the amount of taxes they pay and how the money is spent, then the more agreement there is about ends, the more readily tax revenues can be raised without social discontent. Mechanisms that require greater agreement in a community to pass taxes will have proportionally greater chances for social acceptance of the taxes. Stock markets, financial institutions such as banks or insurance companies, etc., are means of more voluntarily collecting money that gets concentrated into larger sums and that then can be utilized to concentrate labor. But these institutions tend to attract money for purposes other than doing particular work projects that contributors want to see accomplished. They collect money to provide insurance, banking services, investment profits, etc.