[Teacher317]

Do you own a business? You only think you own it. You don’t. The government does. It skims the profits, tells you how much to charge, who you must hire. It micromanages your business and tells you what your bathrooms must look like.
You do all the work and bear all the risk. The government gets its money no matter what.

and their profit margin on your labor and risk and work is far higher than yours.

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and their profit margin on your labor and risk and work is far higher than yours.

It's nearly all pure profit for them. They don't contribute to your payroll, they don't contribute to your inventory. They don't contribute to your building rent/mortgage/upkeep.

One could argue that they provide infrastructure, if they ignore the fact that you as a taxpayer pay for the roads, water, gas, electric, sewer, mail service and hired muscle...