Every single dime in the hands of a producer is in a better place than in the hands of this criminal federal government.
I would like to submit post 63 of this thread for post of the year!
The median household income in the US in 2010 was $52,026. In that same year the total average cost of a single federal worker was $124,000. Government must consume the income of over 2 private sector households, and all the jobs that implies in order to fund a single public sector worker.
This simple math shows that what you say is true in a stunningly important way. Above the basic, enumerated, functions that government has in the Constitution, every government function costs us very dearly indeed in terms of money, but even more dearly in terms of how it must intrude and diminish personal liberty.