> it seems that the HN crowd is down-voting everyone that slightly disagrees with the Big Government and is not into Populist Governments HN downvotes libertar

> it seems that the HN crowd is down-voting everyone that slightly disagrees with the Big Government and is not into Populist Governments HN downvotes libertarians who take the rhetorical position that "tax is theft" (or otherwise inherently immoral), because it's intellectually shallow. There are many reasonable arguments to be made for reduced taxation, and you have presented many of them above. "Tax is theft" is not one of them.