"I've advocated it before - getting rid of income tax (but I'm no tax expert so feel free to disagree and tell me why I'm wrong), and making the others VOLUNTARY, make them a CHOICE, so that if you are already good with your money and frugal, you can do with that money as YOU like to save (or not save) for your future. If you're not so great, well, you can VOLUNTARILY set it aside."

I'm not a tax expert, either, but human nature is such that if you give ppl a CHOICE to pay for their gov't out of their paycheck (income tax), they won't. Who will pay for services then? You don't like plowed roads, voting booths, public schools, emergency services? Pooling our resources to pay for gov't services is part of belonging to a civilized society.