[EliRivers]

I don't understand why smart, capable people want to give away their money to a corrupt, incompetent state to manage it for them.

It's because I believe that there are many things that make my life better that I simply could not provide from my own resources but, when my contribution is pooled with everyone else's, become viable and make my life significantly better. Off the top of my head, the transport system, the judicial system and attendant sub-systems, the healthcare system, research investment. Environmental management. Regulation in food production. I'm sure I could come up with many more.

If you didn't understand this, then I'm shocked at your ignorance.

If you did understand this, then why did you ask? Are you taking some kind of ridiculous, hyperbolic extremist view that nobody is advocating, in order to create the illusion of being a child arguing in a playground?