Interestingly enough, you can make the Biblical case that road building is a legitimate function of civil government. And that septic tanks are better than sewage treatment plants. Polio epidemics apparently clustered around sewage-contaminated waterways.
BTW, the problem I think you have is that YOU don't wish to volunteer.
Actually, I spent 10 good years as a volunteer fireman ;-)
However, most good citizens don't have a problem with taxation. It's gone on for a good long time now.
When the state starts claiming more than God does (10% of income), it's gotten too big for its britches.
To support a viable civil society, you need a "division of labor" between family, church, and civil government. The "seperation of family and state" is at least as important as the "seperation of church and state."
No argument here. But that's almost a separate topic. I fear that many conservatives have been "radicalized" by the extremities of the effects of the Left's influence on our government.
And I agree that this influence has gone so far that there is going to have to be an "uprising" on the part of the electorate before it would ever go back. Such an uprising isn't likely to happen, though, because too many people actually agree with the notion that government has a larger role to play in our everyday life than is Constitutionally permitted.
To support a viable civil society, you need a "division of labor" between family, church, and civil government. The "seperation of family and state" is at least as important as the "seperation of church and state."
Again, you and I are in complete agreement.