What if the cool new thing to do is to set up charitable organizations to voluntarily solve social problems? Example: https://massliberation.net/

The old model of ever-increasing taxes and regulations only furthers the interests of large businesses. They have the scale and reach to use those things as tools to prevent fair competition at the expense of everyone else.

Florida funds itself mostly through tourism taxes, however we also spend much less than CA overall. Just like different people spend different amounts of money, different states do too and need to tax less because of it. CA mostly spends money by paying cops, bart workers, toll booth collectors, etc 100-400k per year whereas Florida pays its government employees market wages.

probably sales and property taxes

FWIW, broadly speaking, I'd rather see wealth taxes and estate taxes than income taxes. Income taxes disincentivize work, whereas wealth taxes penalize idleness.

Normally with a higher property tax and a lower budget (former NH resident here).