That is such a strange way to look at the government, like they are your opposite or your enemy. I don't think politicians are perfect by any means, however in many countries the government offers lots of services that become much cheaper when the collective population pool resources. You talk about taxes as if nobody should ever contribute to anything, yet they allow your country to remain free with an army, it pays for the police force or fire services which often keeps people safe and the upkeep of vast amounts of infrastructure to keep people moving. It's obvious that very few people will actually reach financial independence, at least until they finally reach retirement and hopefully have been saving enough through their lifetime.
Well, well, look what they made us into, someone who work their life and struggle for everything while the leaders will enjoy everything with the tax payers money and don't think about who are actually helping the nation to keep running. Spending tax money for defence accepted to certain level but using it to finance war for other countries for decades now here tell what do people actually benefits from this? I don't want to work my ass off to finance war that's happening somewhere which is none of my business.