The fact that government is funded through taxation increases the odds that government programs will fail to achieve their announced objectives. Taxes sever link between costs and benefits. At the same time, no one has an incentive to provide more resources. For example, since they don't have to pay in proportion to the cost to obtain access to roads, drivers demand more than can be provided. Highway agencies go through recurring financial crises in a futile effort to sate this demand.
Human creativity is the key to a more livable future in both economic and environmental terms.
To get creativity we must have freedom to think and act. The more people are free to think and act, the better off we will be. No instrument of compulsion, at any level of government, offers more hope for the future than the voluntary interactions of free human beings.