It's a form of single purpose government where you know that your "taxes" are only ever going to the one thing the "government" was set up to do (also, there's

It's a form of single purpose government where you know that your "taxes" are only ever going to the one thing the "government" was set up to do (also, there's the bit where you can resign your membership without moving to Somalia). Most of the problems with modern government can be understood as a case of severe feature creep.