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Well, government funds come through taxation. If government is paying workers to build a road, those workers are still paying taxes on their government wages. Both the private and public sectors support each other, with the government supporting the private sector by way of infrastructure, business charters, and copyright protections, among other things. One really cannot exist without the other. The bargain is what services does the government provide that the private sector also provides at the best cost, and vice-versa. In some cases (health insurance), it makes more sense for the government to be the payor as multiple insurance payors do nothing to improve your care, but do much to increase cost.
According to MMT we don't really need taxation. The government can just spend the money and run deficits and we won't even have to worry about the national debt because the national debt isn't real debt and if we have to pay it back, which MMT says we don't, we can always just print the money to pay it back.