The Jewish theocracy instituted in Saul's reign was a concession to the requests of a rebellious, worldly people. God's ideal plan for the state is maximum individual freedom, strong family government out of which grows a sound ecclesiastical government, and a civil government whose responsibilities are limited to protecting life, property, and religious freedom. This is an aspect of what I call Christian libertarianism, and it is what the Bible teaches.
Extensive taxation constitutes theft by legal coercion.
Even this proportion borders on excess, since it was God's concession to Israel's rebellious lust that elicited this bureaucratic arrangement. For example, a Reformed denomination in the British Isles assaulted theonomy on the grounds that it is a non-biblical, free market economic program covered by a thin theological veneer. It is much more accurate to say that this church wants to retain its lust for the spoils of state-coerced theft under the guise of an assault on theonomy. Citizens, even supposedly good Christians, have become so accustomed to state largess that any suggestion identifying it as violating God's law or that it should be eliminated meets with, at best, blank horror and, at worst, stern disapproval. A simple verbal test suffices to prove this.