I may not have been clear: I am very much opposed to the existence of a surveillance state; and while I am not opposed to taxation or public goods a priori, I c

I may not have been clear: I am very much opposed to the existence of a surveillance state; and while I am not opposed to taxation or public goods a priori, I consider our current mechanisms of taxation to be both inefficient and problematic (contrast with Henry George's LVT, Pigovian taxes on externalities, luxury taxes, etc).