By the way, you DO have a choice WRT how much you pay toward public services.
You’re free to move to a city/county/state/country with very low costs for public employees. There are a number of places just in this country where they only employ a couple of cops and have volunteer fire departments.
So you DO have a choice; you just choose to live in a high-cost city/county/state.
Some of us like to live in an area with robust public services. We enjoy the amenities and want the highest-quality people to do these jobs. We are more than willing to pay for it, too. We have the right to make this choice, too. The great thing about this country is that we all have choices. Feel free to practice what you preach and move to one of these lower-cost areas.
