This is what a lot of 'right'-leaning people miss, I think. If you've spent any time in places that don't have functional welfare provision, you'll have witnessed the outfall.
If you're okay for your city streets to be lined with people, often whole families, living on the pavements; the diseases they suffer and spread; aggressive robbers and beggars trying to raise food money; widespread, organised crime with violence; huge shanty towns that trap families in generational poverty & crime; those shanties regularly collapsing with thousands of deaths; public services that don't work; sewage in the street; broken education systems; unsafe working practices endangering everyone's life; universal corruption ... then have at it. Go and live there. At least your taxes will be low (though you'll pay more in bribes and getting robbed).
We're fortunate to be able to live in ignorance, because our systems do work - although some of us can see how they are working less well, thanks to the gradual shift to the 'right' we've been experiencing.
I once phoned the police because I heard a revolver shot. They asked me how I knew it was a gunshot. "I used to live in Rio de Janeiro," I said, "I heard them every night". They sneered at me. It clearly meant nothing to them. One of my neighbours was killed by a bullet that ricocheted off his garden wall from a robbery outside!
I caught dysentery. I was vaccinated up to the eyeballs. I've waded through raw sewage. I used to keep a stash of ready cash for the young muggers who approached me once a week or so, I worked with prostituted children (one girl was only three), I saw skeletally-thin rural parents put their kids on a bus to the city to fend for themselves ("At least they'll find food"). I did love living there - and Brazil is far from the least functional place, it's 'second world'.
It's fairly easy to feel you don't need the public services and welfare systems that taxes pay for. But you do, because they protect your clean, safe lifestyle.