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That's running the government like a business!

Yes! we can even distribute political and military power to selected individuals who can rule over small portions maintaining security and collecting taxes.

After all, it was divine right (Darwinian evolution, AI schizobabble, etc) that made them men of might.

>Yes! we can even distribute political and military power to selected individuals who can rule over small portions maintaining security and collecting taxes.

That's basically what states and municipalities are.

That's ... decently close to what the current political course of action is, a strategy called "starve the beast" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

The very first sentence in that sayes "cutting taxes". I'm explicitly proposing that taxes be maintained or raised while reducing or eliminating government services.