Dems will tax you and use that money to pave your roads, build a park, fund your schools.
Have you ever been to southeast Michigan? One of the bluest-of-blue voting histories - I'm talking Wayne, Oakland, and Washtenaw counties here (you can probably add Genesee county where Flint is, too). We have an astonishing number of dirt roads, and the ones we paved would often actually be better if they were dirt instead of the concrete rubble they are...and I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to look up on the condition of public education in these counties (and you can't blame the current state administration either - these problems have been generations in the making, and will likely take generations to fix).
Anyway my point is actually to say: whatever party label you have, you are not going to get what you think you're going to get from your taxes. What will get you what you want from your tax dollars is people of integrity - regardless of their party label. Sadly, "integrity" is not something that is all that common in politics...
I totally agree. However the Republican Party has, over the last 30 years, become a party antithetically opposed to the very idea of government services. These are people who talk about wanting to have government so small they can "choke it to death". It's not a political difference of how best to deliver services, or which services to prioritize, it's a political difference of whether to HAVE services.
I imagine that at the local level, there are still Republicans who believe in delivering public services efficiently, modestly and being fiscally responsible. Those people are in the wrong damn party at this point, which is why you're seeing more and more of them leaving.