It fact the reverse is true if you critically examine how power works. At a most fundamental level, the ability to maintain a state is a matter of (1) maintaining a monopoly on violence inside your jurisdiction so you can collect tax revenue in return for orderly administration (2) maintaining sufficient degree of both benefit and deterrence towards outsiders so they don't invade you.

In the modern high technology world, both (1) and (2) require increasingly higher investments to sustain advantage which favours bigger states. Small states have to work very hard on carrots on (2) in particular to avoid being trampled. Tax friendly small jurisdictions largely survive at the whim & fancy of the elites of the bigger countries whose private interests they serve. Tourism focused small countries face the same pressures of serving the elites of bigger countries and in fact were trampled during covid lockdowns. Small countries that can't make (2) work stay poor.

The Ukraine conflict effectively demonstrates the point. Previously, Ukraine failed at (1) in the provinces which had high ethnic Russian populations and (2) by giving up nuclear weapons and giving up Crimea without a war which enabled the invasion.

Even though it turns out Russia seems to have badly miscalculated it's ability to win, the war has dragged so long in spite of causing major global economic disruptions because no one else feels able to intervene due to the high technology Nuclear ICBM threat.

If people turn their back and understand this is not good, in the long run they will lose.

If people understand that power calls power, that too centralized power is evil and that the world is not as dangerous as they pretend (in the sense that safety is more due to conventions and culture than on surveillance everywhere) then they will start to refuse it because they will understand the threat is the state itself when it grows so much. This is my current perception but was not so like 20 years ago or 25.

I know many ppl that do not believe anymore in tax systems as an effective vehicle to solve most problems but see it more of a problem where some ppl are doing their business from.

Absolutely. As states are collapsing under their own weight (particularly for large western countries like the US and France), the transition to a new model will be unavoidable.

The next decades will be fascinating to observe in that regard.

States are trying to put all kind of walls especially when CDBC come out to control population.

Do not underestimate them. But many ppl noticed already that nowadays this is not the best way to organize and that they are just there to suck resources.

But they will try with all kind of tricks to keep control, unfortunately.