Everyone sees, but feels powerless to prevent, the excesses of these bureaucracies within the governmental system. With a fundamental shift towards decentralizing government funding, the people would be better able to monitor and control how their tax money is spent. Protection against self-incrimination is acknowledged only for criminal cases. The Fifth Amendment doesn't acknowledge any right to be free of self-incrimination in civil cases. Not all courts are criminal courts.
Traffic courts are an example at the local level.
There are also federal courts which are not considered to be criminal courts. Prominent among them is the U.S. Tax Court, in which there isn't any protection against self-incrimination. The articles Courts of the United States and Tax Court, from Black's Law Dictionary, are available upon request. If a court grants immunity, then refusal of an accused individual to answer questions constitutes the additional and separate crime of criminal contempt. Immunity from prosecution.