>Like when they build/repair roads & railways so you can get to the shops, provide a water supply, pipe away and treat sewage, take away your garbage, put out fires, send an ambulance, build airports, provide air traffic control etc?
You have a government that does all that for you? I don't. I pay a private company to haul my garbage. The fire department burned down a couple of years ago and when they showed up at the house next door they accomplished nothing... and they are all volunteers. We have no airport in my town, or the next one up the road, or the next one, or the next one... My water comes from my well and goes into my septic tank. The roads... well the roads are nice when they aren't tearing them up constantly, which is... never... Roads COULD be nice...