Higher taxes slows country growth and personal freedom

I oppose higher taxes under any circumstances because higher taxes allow the government to expand and, in the process of expanding, to retard economic growth and curtail individual freedom. We are all aware of how dysfunctional and wasteful the US government is. 

In some European countries, the situation is not much better or is even worse. 

 via Economist

Does anyone really want to give the government more money with which to wage additional senseless and extremely costly wars, and to distribute even more food stamps, and to allow even more people to receive disability benefits ?