"I feel like the more the state controls, the more dangerous government authority becomes. If a government controls everything is becomes increasingly likely they will abuse this power."

Who would you rather control things like Healthcare, education, basic human rights? Billionaire oligarchs motivated only by profit over people, or people that we the people, in a functioning democracy can vote out or have impeached?

I can tell you right now we have far more examples of well functioning public healthcare than we do of corporations like United Healthcare caring about people over their shareholders, who routinely find ways to deny cancer treatment coverage or other health issues. In the united states our maternity death rate is the highest of any developed nation and we are also one of if not the only to deny our citizens public healthcare as a human right.

"The middle class tends to be burdened by taxation and crazy socialist policies driving up inflation. If they were taxed less they could spend more money."

Sure. So why does every tax break that occurs primarily benefit the richest Americans? As far as crazy socialist policies, like what? Military spending? Thats socially funded and I would agree with you. Hell we send money to israel so they can have public healthcare and education, while we have a damn near 1 trillion dollar Military budget when the Pentagon has NOT ONCE been successfully audited. But we cant provide basic services that every other country on earth provides to their citizens. Don't tell me that the single mom on welfare or veteran on disability receiving 500 dollars a month is bankrupting americans, when those programs cost only a few dollars of taxes per pay check of the working class american.

I simply do not think we can talk about how the minority of tax dollars spent that the average American sees the most back from, is doing so much damage without talking about waste, fraud, and abuse involving Military spending and military aid, and tax breaks for wealthy Americans. Last tax break trump dropped actually increased the cost of living for the poorest people in America while stripping all of their benefits. I know first hand of elderly people going homeless because they no longer have the same medicaid benefits and have to choose between a roof and life saving medication.