Or at the very least there needs to be an active review process of all the old laws that don't make sense anymore and remove them. While people may not usually be prosecuted by them, they could always use them if they can't dig up any other dirt
A tiny portion of your taxes go to that. Look at the budget spending percentages. Look how much money is being taken from the citizens. Now look at how awful our infrastructure is. Bridges are falling apart, the electric grid is hanging by a thread, our education system is clearly failing (if you believe it has a admirable goal...)
The vast majority of the money you pay in taxes is being stuffed right into politicians pockets or sent to other countries and stuff in their politician's pockets
Except most don't lend us money. We lend them money. The most brain-dead thing possible to do