I disagree (shocker, I know). I don't want my taxes paying for invasions of countries without WMDs, deportation of refugee children, or subsidies for sports stadiums and corporations. However, I still pay my taxes (mostly gladly) because I want roads, hospitals, social security so the elderly and the infirm aren't starving (or having to move in with me! My mom is on disability because of a chronic illness), fire departments who will come when my house is on fire, etc. The thing about these choices is that they're compromises.
I'm not naive enough to believe that I can get everything I want while other people get nothing that they want, or that the only things people can get are based on my beliefs and needs. There are too many people on this small planet for anarchy, or even some kind of "every man for himself" way of being to succeed. Not to mention that we need each other - I'm not a good shoemaker or auto mechanic, but I can raise and cook a tasty chicken and knit a sweater. So we come to compromises that let us live together.
That, essentially, is what government is - people who make the decisions that allow us to occupy the same spaces. Now, what kind of government and which choices they make is an open question. I'd love a smaller government, but so many small government people just want it small enough to fit into my uterus, and small enough to fit through the keyhole of my bedroom door and tell me what decisions I can make or who I can love, while letting them do whatever the hell they want with their corporations, including poisoning my food supply, our water, our air, and the rest of our planet.
Small government is a great concept, but I don't know how well it works when people seem completely unwilling to consider their neighbor's needs when they make their own choices, and seem unwilling to work with people of varying beliefs, colors, and nationalities to make things that benefit all of us.
