Ever noticed that if you (have to) give something up for the good of the public, the community, or the collective, you never seem to be part of this all-encompassing group of recipients?
Tommy "The Purchase"
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I'd rather be in on a good system based on individual values and the value of the individual.
None of the things I like were invented by the government, except the MP3 format.
Everything I really dislike was invented by the government, except iPhones.
"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind"
Luckily, if your mind is the likeness of a current-gen LLM, you barely qualify as human.
In case you're a right-winger and you have been living under a rock for the last 650,000 years: Reagan was not a libertarian, he was a big-government spending hawk like almost everybody else.
The last president noticably acting like a libertarian was Calvin Coolidge in the 1920s.