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Can't agree with you. We need interstate commerce, which includes roads, we need a national defense, weather warnings, municipal goods (police, hospitals, septic and power), we need agencies to provide for the widows and orphans, we need basic educational guarantees.
But, many of the systems we have in place are indeed, quite wasteful and have no means of even breaking even. Some systems, pay back our investments thousands of times over - such as NASA, our hydroelectric dams, and telecommunications system. Many of our satellites have allowed us to grow, far faster and more profitably than any other country.
So the answer is greater than zero, but less than we are currently paying.
Interstate commerce should only include the interstate highways. All others are state and local.
Hospitals, septic, power, widows and orphans, and basic education are all unconstitutional activities by the federal government.
Hospitals are private corporations. The sewer systems are local government projects. The power grid is owned by private corporations. Widows and orphans are taken care of by countless charities and individuals. Education is not a duty of government at all.
If we weren't taxed so much, we would have a lot more to donate to worthy charities.
Our telecommunications systems were developed and are owned by corporations, as are the satellites.
The Constitution limits the federal government to a very, very few jobs, including minting money, regulating weights and measures, and protecting us from foreign invaders. Everything else is to be left to the states and individual people. Everything else.
We don't need the income tax at all. Before 1913, almost all federal revenue came from tariffs on foreign imports.
So we "owe" the federal government very little.
US Constituion is quite specific about the responsibilities of the Federal Government. They are found at Article I, Sec. 8; Articles II-V; Amendments XIII-XVI, XIX-XX, XXIII-XXVI.
And roads are quite specifically spelled out, albeit they are in alignment with the formation of the Post Office. But this gives interstate commerce under the domain of the Federal Government
I will not speak for you; but I am in favor of the US Constitution over any political party
Tariffs > federal income tax
Before 1913, most of federal revenue was from tariffs on foreign imports. If the federal government limited itself to constitutional actions, they wouldn't need our income taxes.