This casual empiricism is not settling much. Consider that Mexico enjoys
lower tax rates than the U.S.A., yet millions of its people jump through
hoops to enter the U.S.A. Consider that Alabama, Mississippi, and New Mexico
have about the lowest level of state and local taxes in the U.S.A., along
with about the lowest wage rates.
Consider, too, there are different kinds of taxes, some of which oppress
enterprise and some of which stimulate it (remember Henry George?). There
are different kinds of regulations, and public services, some useful and
some baneful. Let's move to a higher level of sophistication, please!
In the process, please deconstruct "Hayekian" before using it any more: it
has many dimensions depending on the context. 

Mason Gaffney