Beyond cops and firefighters at the local level and soldiers at the federal level, we don’t really need very many public “workers.” And, frankly, a lot of local police and fire services could be outsourced.
We certainly don’t need government schools. Let parents with children take charge of educating their own kids. Some would home school (which is ideal), while others might unite with other parents and/or local churches to form schools that the parents pay for with tuition (not tax) money.
Agree.
Re: cops. Few of them are protecting us. Most are raising revenue (writing tickets, confiscating property, ...) or writing reports. They are more interested in writing the report on the robbery than on catching the robbers.