Where does government get the money to pay their federal employees?
Isn't that money better spent by the private sector in the private sector?
Government, especially the federal one, has become a bloated, under performing, over expensive, over interceding, excessively intrusive, bureaucrat protecting, bureaucracy, without any sort of spending controls or spending discipline, with little more than an culture of excessive spending and corruption, and frankly, needs to have a very large budget axe taken to it for multiple years in a row before it's going to be the size that it satisfactorily justify being.
Government, and it's associated costs, are the overhead for having the self-governing society that we have, and everyone always needs to be mindful that overhead isn't any sort of advantage in anything. It's a cost that steals from everyone and everything else, and ought to be minimized at every turn, and who's expenses should be tightly managed to worthwhile deeds done as cheaply, as efficiently, and as effectively as possible.
I doubt that there's a single nation in human history that grew to greatness by increasing their governmental overhead costs, but I'd imagine that there are probably many that have collapsed because they didn't. Just look at Venezuela. Is that where you want to end up?