Sure, if you believe the police force and military should have 'first rights' with your wife, can tax anything you do without limitation, requisition your property, etc, etc.

You can idealize it all you like through the rose colored glasses of 'pomp and circumstance.' But at the end of the day it is what it's always been...an imaginary birthright, and an imaginary authority.

"Imaginary," because I grant them neither.

A Constitutional representative republic is a challenging and messy form of government. But it is the best thing going, by far. And any furtherance of "Royalty," even as some quaint Disney-esque unempowered daliance...amounts to little more than a drain on tax dollars.

- Nudge