If being charged more in taxes eliminated the need and worry of?
I don't think eliminating bills for household utilities by increasing taxes by some amount is a good idea. It would be like making one pay the same amount of money, regardless on which amount of electricity/water one consumes, right? There will be a considerable amount of people who will think that they can have unlimited utilities by paying that amount of money. They will waste water or electricity, so the costs for service providing will exceed the income from the bills (integrated with taxes). The service providers won't agree to pay for extra water (which needs to be purified and pumped till buildings), for example, from their own pockets, so there will be need to calculate how much water people consume, and we will be back to present situation, with people paying bills for the amount of water they consume