I don’t believe it. A core concept of the Swiss democracy is how every decision (in theory) is made locally. It works primarily on three levels - Gemeinde, Canton and Federal. I don’t see why it couldn’t work the same in the US.

FWIW, I pay most of my taxes to the Gemeinde and Canton. About 3% goes to the Federal state, which I assume is mostly to the (compulsory) military.

It seems to me as a foreigner that a large part of the U.S. problems(and indeed the world) is the concentration of power to the U.S. federal state.