America has evolved more and more into socialistic institutions, especially in the sense, of universal health care, Medicare, Medicaid, social security, public schooling, public infrastructure, standing armies (military), law enforcement, and various social services of community as well as on State and Federal levels, along with public utilities. None of these things are necessarily bad, in fact, some of them, make quite logical sense and are a real benefit for the people, for their efficiencies of scale, for sharing the load, and are necessary for the proper functioning of governmental needs and desires.
There are, however, an incredibly big divide between things that necessitate drawing upon the resources of the public at large, that benefit pretty much equally the public at large, as in roads, sewage, clean water, electricity, and so forth, and things that are specifically addressed to people on an individual level, such as their individual health care, their individual education, and so on. For instance, the fact that we have schools specifically set up as a public service that all are equally entitled to for K-12 education is on the surface, a very good thing, but what is missing from the equation, is that the cost of providing such education is deceptively seen as a public service or even seen as "free" when in fact, it isn't really those things at all. The fact that most parents do not have skin in the public education game, has effectively meant that public education as presented to its constituents, is a law unto itself, answering mainly to those that operate and run it, and only has as a secondary purpose the actual good education of the children attending it. If, the parents through school vouchers, or some other equivalent form, could choose where their children attended school, based on the perceived merits and other pertinent educational information, schools would have no choice but to raise their standards so as to win their fair share in the marketplace, or to suffer the consequences for that failure.
The problem that America deeply has today, and seems unable to recognize on its most primary level, is that when sovereign citizens cede more and more control of their personal choices, to a faceless bureaucratic edifice, than they will find that rather than the government being the servant to the people, that they are instead subservient to the government, which means that they will forever need to fill out forms correctly, deal with governmental red tape in all of its aspects, and at any time could be denied services because of various reasons, legitimate or not. On the other hand, those that maintain control of their dollars, and subsequently of their buying power, are solicited by those that need those dollars in order for their business or for the service to function. This means that taxation in all of its many forms, as in hidden, or income or sales or usage, or transparent, is a great power that will strengthen the tax authorities and their respective infrastructure at the expense of the people, all under the guise, of this being for the greater good.
The one thing missing from all of this discussion, is that the very things that you labor for, the very things that you trained yourself to do well at, or that you have learned how to do properly, and then applied yourself diligently to, should be fundamentally seen as yours and not by rights, the government. Hard work, hard labor, great dedication, should be rewarded to those have done so, so as to receive a fair share of that given labor, not something that must by law, by taxation, by fiat, be sacrificed to entities that have not earned their keep. The man that labors for his bread is deserving of that self same bread, and most definitely will take the fruits of such labor and utilize it in such a manner that makes prudent sense to that man, recognizing that he has responsibility to his own. That labor deserves its own choice, whereas today, labor, for a significant amount of Americans, has little choice, because the taxes in all of its many guises wrests from a man the true sweat of their noble labor, leaving them wards of a State that will keep them bound to it.