I disagree.
WE THE PEOPLE are the main enablers of the criminality of governments.

As long as we keep voting for more government, we will get a LOT more government.

I quit paying taxes over 15 years ago. I refuse to vote to have my will forced onto you and I hope that some day you will stop voting to have your will forced onto me. It's a zero sum game.

"What about the roads and the schools?!" they say..

The free-market figured out to put that smartphone into your pocket, so I'm pretty sure the free-market can also figure out a way to pave a road.

We cannot fight the beast.
We have to render it obsolete and decentralize our minds, money, energy, food and communities. Decentralize it all to starve the beast.