Yes it is. They wouldn't need to tax people if they only intended to do things people wanted. Services are voluntarily paid for, taxes are stolen in order to destroy things. They only sprinkle in public facing parks or trash pickup so that when people protest or try to hold up proposed increses in spending they have leverage & can take away access to the parks & take away trash services in order to squeeze people (they never stop the wars or any of the corrupt trillion dollar programs). You severely underestimate the nefarious nature of the organization & the people involved. Listen to the linked episode, listen to Anatomy of the State, read the abridged version of Gulag Archipelago & then look around at what is being done here. Read Atlas Shrugged if you've never read that either. Larken's book is good, but I found those others much more compelling.