The problem in the United States isn't that Americans are unwilling to pay taxes to provide adequate essential services, the problem is that the money collected is used to pay for so many non-essential services that core services are underfunded.  People like to blame "the military" for this, but the military is an essential service, only takes up a small portion of the federal budget, and this is a problem in state and municipal governments (which don't pay for the military).

A small portion of the federal budget?

23% is a small portion?

Taxes are a good thing when used right, wasting the money on someone who wont pay a tax would of been wroung.

They did a good job coming and stopping it spreading to the people who did pay. I just wish other goverments would follow suit and stop giving so much damn money away. Hell think how good the UK would be if the only money they spent on the immigrants was a ticket home, but no each family costs the tax payer over a million a year.

Back on topic the firefighters are probally getting underbudget due to putting out peoples fires that dont pay, and this is there wakeup call to people.

I don't think you understand what libertarianism is ...

Taxes are a good thing when used right, wasting the money on someone who wont pay a tax would of been wroung.

They did a good job coming and stopping it spreading to the people who did pay. I just wish other goverments would follow suit and stop giving so much damn money away. Hell think how good the UK would be if the only money they spent on the immigrants was a ticket home, but no each family costs the tax payer over a million a year.

Back on topic the firefighters are probally getting underbudget due to putting out peoples fires that dont pay, and this is there wakeup call to people.

There are individuals with a libertarian bent in their life philosophy, who believe communities are a myth and the only thing that exists are individuals who negotiate contracts among themselves.  They don't want to live anywhere others make demands on them and they have to go along with what the group says.  Ayn Rand's "enlightened self-interest" fits into this.

The problem in the United States isn't that Americans are unwilling to pay taxes to provide adequate essential services, the problem is that the money collected is used to pay for so many non-essential services that core services are underfunded.  People like to blame "the military" for this, but the military is an essential service, only takes up a small portion of the federal budget, and this is a problem in state and municipal governments (which don't pay for the military).

What are these non-essential services?

I think a simpler way to look at this is what are the essential services that are provided by the government. On a federal level the government is responsible for national security, foreign relations, interstate relations, trade and a portion of the criminal justice/penal system. Any spending item that doesn't line-up with these responsibilities is not essential, because it doesn't have to be provided by the federal government. Similarly, state and municipal government have core responsibilities and any spending not related to these responsibilities is non-essential; and most emergency services (like the fire department) would fall into the responsibility of the state or municipal government.

When you start looking into social spending (as an example) it doesn't line-up with any responsibility the governments do (or should) have; and when you analyze the outcomes of most of this spending and understand that no-one benefits from this in the long run it is difficult to argue that it is something that should continue to exist.