The question really is whether having a central government and concentrating all the money in the form of taxes is the best possible way of achieving all these. There can be different kind of governments and governance and the way economy can florish.

We are gonna get taxed either directly or indirectly. Anybody who has paid a medical bill recently (1100 dollars for a ride to the emergency room because my mom's catheter got clogged) knows that we get taxed heavily without regulation. What we need is taxation that alleviates the heavy burden of extraordinary required costs.

The promise of endless tax cuts is a road to a completely dysfunctional government. It is all about the me and to hell with everyone else proclivity of some people.