Guess what: most intelligent people understand that government and public services are a good thing, and that taxes are necessary to have them.
Most intelligent people 300 years ago thought people could be owned, leeches were medicine, and that outer space was filled with ether. The logical fallacy you are making is called
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum.
Something which an academic should know. Especially one paid with public money.