This is committing the classic mistake of forgetting that a government is just a corporation with an army behind it. "The government" isn't going away; just the one where you had any semblance of say in its operation.
This is exactly the insight that shifted me from being libertarian to progressive. Humans create organizations to coordinate behavior. Corporations are good for risk taking ventures, governments are good for social cooperation and coordination. Different purposes, time scales and objectives. Both are important and necessary. We should make them the best they can be.
Government ultimately is power over the citizenry -- it will always exist in one form or another whether it's the Church, the Mob, Warlords, etc. I believe our existing government is the least-worst option.
The goal is literally the end of democracy and a king reigning over techno-feudalist "states". They make no secret of this.
I would like to see the IRS take my income when it's disbanded.
> a government is just a corporation with an army behind it
This is a bad analogy. A corporation, and a corporation that can use force, have completely different properties. Walmart cannot hold a gun to my head and force me to pay for illegal alien's hotels. They can only get by if they sell products worth buying, and in a free and fair market, they can flourish only based on merit. They must cut the fat and make better deals and better products if they want to grow. The government does not have the pressures of a free and fair market. If the government needs more money, they print it, or they take it from me. Both are a form of tax. They don't cut their own fat. They have no incentive. They only grow. I may get downvoted for this, but I think Elon is doing good work. He managed to get twitter running on about 20% of the employees and I think he can do the same with government. From my perspective, the only people who complain about this are those that want to see a perpetually growing central government who don't see the danger of having a centralized power encroaching and taxing every aspect of our lives, and those who are in on it themselves.
