You're right but the knee-jerk response to this realization is to cut taxes and starve the government of its only legitimate fundraising mechanism. While gover

You're right but the knee-jerk response to this realization is to cut taxes and starve the government of its only legitimate fundraising mechanism. While government sponsored monopolies certainly exist, monopolies themselves are a natural outcome of competition. Deregulation would break some monopolies while encouraging others to grow. The new monopolies may be far worse than the ones we had before.