We have Constitution. It stipulates a very narrow range of roles for the federal government, and leaves all else to the people or the states. The vast majority of current spending is outside of those enumerated federal powers. That money should be returned to the citizens that earned it. Additionally, even within those enumerated powers, spending is way too high. Just because the COnstitution provides authority to the knuckle-draggers to provide for a national defense doesn't mean it gives them carte blanche to spend any wild amount of OPM they might fancy. So yes, of course, taxes are waaaaaaay too high.
Or again, as Adam Smith observed:
"The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it."
and
"It is the highest impertinence and presumption… in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense... They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them look well after their own expense, and they may safely trust private people with theirs. If their own extravagance does not ruin the state, that of their subjects never will."
But, hey, all is not lost. I'll staunchly defend your right to share all the fruits of your labor with the mouth-breathers that you might desire. You know, "for the public". Just quit the stealing.