Fundamentally, the urge to eliminate taxes and reduce the size of the government is a vote of no confidence. Not just now,but permanently. It's not a vote for reform. I don't think the government leadership has my best interests at heart. I think it would happily take everything I have and leave me to starve in the street if it could.
A huge chunk of government spending is a horrendous waste/scam and you will likely never understand this unless you take the initiative to look at the spending breakdowns or actually spend a bit of time at a government contractor.
These real world observations demonstrated my theoretical model was flawed.
And for-profit companies have your best interest at heart? With government services you can at least optimize for goals other than profit.
The goal should be providing the service I want for the least tax dollars possible.
The government is horrendous at doing this. There is no performance or competitive incentive.