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Originally posted by lurkette
If you have enough money for food, and you have a roof over your head, and you have transportation and health care; if, in essence, you have all of your basic needs met, (why) does it bother you if some of your tax money goes to help meet the needs of others?
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Generally because only 1 or 2% of that tax money went where it was supposed to. The rest got filtered out along the way to pay off favors that candidates made while they were campaigning, off to special projects like making sure mining companies can strip mine for like $0.89 an acre and leave the land ruined since the laws have not changed since 1849, and most importantly, making sure that I have every decimal in place on my tax return so that they can get every last cent from me.
I far prefer to donate my time or money directly to whatever cause I think needs it. Way more efficient.