We pay taxes too. It’s not like the public servants are exempt from property or state tax.
I don’t buy the line about public services being phased out, but they are cut back, and workforces are thinned. Therefore response time does lessen when personnel are cut.
Every dime in money you get is first taxed away from the private sector at the point of a gun. Government doesn't create wealth. It never has and never will. Government is, at best, a necessary evil.