I could see paying a “tax” to the local (and I mean very local/community) to pay for a teacher to teach the local children the basics. And that tax would be not in coin, but like food, as they are spending so many hours a day teaching and not gardening or raising livestock.
A lot of the services we are paying for now, are just plain dumb. Yesterday a county tractor with a sickle bar mower went by, cutting the grass along the side of the road to make it look . . . nicer.