Comment by Gormo

> Which also includes the education system training you for the labor market.

Does it? That's an assumption many people make, but I'm not sure that this was either the original intent -- public schooling was driven largely as a tool for "liberal arts" and to assimilate immigrants -- nor something that public schooling has ever proven to be particularly good at.

> If we know they're bad at this and often responsible for the issues we have, why are we funding them so much?

Well, most people's main incentive for paying taxes is the threat of being punished for failing to do so.

> And this can only be done peacefully by defunding the incompetent state apparatus.

Agreed entirely.

> Yeah but you need money for that. And we don't have money because the state is taking half of it.

Agreed entirely, and doing away with confiscatory taxation is an important goal. But whether or not the state takes our money is not directly relevant to the question of whether the state is sufficiently trustworthy and competent to assign monopolistic control of critical aspects of our lives to.

And my position on that is that even if we can't roll back taxation, we still shouldn't trust the state with unilateral control over key aspects of our lives and livelihoods, and we'd be better off making do with the resources we retain despite taxation to provide those things for ourselves via other forms of organization or community.