How will decisions about creating or collecting taxes be made?

Decisions about creating or collecting taxes will most likely be made (in the U.S.) through voting.

Explanation:

Because that's how America works. :)

the anwser is a) to prevent military conflict

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire