This is how you end up with bands of military and police extracting "road tax" as they see fit. Iraq circa 2004 is not a good model.

The top 3 expenses of any modern contemporary state are:

1. Retirements funds 2. Health care 3. Education

No program that seriously contemplates cost reductions can do without cutting back with these. Guess who the beneficiaries of these expenses are.

See the Mad Max trilogy for a study in cut-down government expenses.