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Eventually, the poor will simply shoot the officers of your perfect government, and impose a Jacobin terror that will take decades to get over. The only way to avoid this outcome is to exterminate the poor first.

Revolt or genocide. Your choice.

You are terrorizing yourself with unjustified paranoia. It seems to me that a government that is doing all the same things Jefferson so eloquently criticized in the Declaration of Independence--only to a far greater extent--is the one that should worry about revolution (not recommended, by the way--but it could happen).

It is logically impossible to revolt against a government that doesn't exist. And in the case of a minarchy, revolt would be logically possible, but there would be little motivation. The more powerful the government, the greater the potential rewards for taking it over. And the less poweverful the government, the less there is to be gained by its overthrow.

But you object that a minarchy would be overthrown and replaced with a severe Tyranny. And that is certainly possible. But it is only likely in the case where there is a social consensus for tyrannical government, such as we have in this country today. A society gets the form of government it thinks is right. No minarchy will be established here, or anywhere, as long as the social consensus does not favor it. But the same constraint would protect minarchical government in a society that was committed to minarchy.

Consider: