One insanity of our current system is that it requires individual taxpayers to funnel vast amount of money to the federal government, which then, via a spoils system, gets to decide how much it sends back down to the states.
On top of the rampant corruption of this system is the incredible inefficiency of the vast bureaucracy required to implement it. One of the additional benefits of reform would be the elimination of thousands of government jobs which are a huge drag on productivity. Most government “jobs” are just a more expensive and slightly more respectable sort of welfare.
Beyond cops and firefighters at the local level and soldiers at the federal level, we don’t really need very many public “workers.” And, frankly, a lot of local police and fire services could be outsourced.
We certainly don’t need government schools. Let parents with children take charge of educating their own kids. Some would home school (which is ideal), while others might unite with other parents and/or local churches to form schools that the parents pay for with tuition (not tax) money.