Well, it depends on what your goals are. What I've outlined certainly won't support a welfare state, military adventures overseas, drug wars, etc. But it would

Well, it depends on what your goals are. What I've outlined certainly won't support a welfare state, military adventures overseas, drug wars, etc. But it would be successful in ensuring that people aren't living in anarchy. It doesn't cost that much to keep police, courts, legislatures, etc. going. 19th-century America did this much without an income tax.