I upvoted you, but disagree with your assessment.<p>&gt; wouldn&#x27;t it be better to have all this power be in the hands of the democratically chosen<p>In a word: no.<p>Although the state spends some money on things that aren&#x27;t abhorrent - broken clock politics as it were - it also spends money killing, torturing, and imprisoning people.<p>So I think it&#x27;s a very defensible moral stand to give the state as little money as possible.