sweetstuff:
However, you can't dictate how the government choses to use your tax dollars any more than you can dictate to a person who just bought your car how he should drive it or who he is allowed to resell it to.
That's not at all the same thing. It's more like your car has been stolen, or at least commandeered against your wishes.
You are bound by law to pay your taxes. If you don't the government will get ya,
Agreed, the money is taken by force.
so would you prefer your tax dollars to go towards helping those who are perhaps a bit less fortunate or towards weapons.
Defense is a legitimate and necessary function of government. Charity is not,
I'd personally be happier to see my hard earned money help someone else within my own country have a better chance of making it, versus it being used toward a bomb that will kill innocent people in another country in the name of political agenda.
Those aren't the only choices available. Disagreeing with one does not mean defaulting to the other.
Just an example of how people chose to bitch about "Oh I am supporting so and so with my taxdollars", yet you don't hear them out on the streets proclaiming, "Oh, my taxdollars just killed 3 children in Iraq, its just wrong and I won't take it". No one gives a rat's ass it seems, about the latter.
What are you talking about? There have been protests against the war since it began. There is a huge and vocal anti-war lobby.
If they truly did, the would boycott paying their taxes in mass)
Unfortunately, the punishments for doing so are so severe that only the most staunchly principled people would even consider it.
But someone's life being BETTER because of tax dollars is a crying freaking shame isn't it?
Someone's life being better at the expense of someone else's life being worse is a shame, especially when the person who suffers is the one who worked hard for a better life.
It reminds me of a child sooking cause their sibling got a bigger piece of the candy they bought together at the store.
No, it's more like candy being taken from the child who bought it and being given to a child who has already eaten their candy.
How many tax dollars in the U.S. are really used towards social programs and medical programs compared to other countries of similar economic standing? MUCH LESS, check the numbers. How much more is used by the U.S. towards military funding, government funding and "homeland security"? ALOT more. So perhaps instead of bitching about the very few who are positively helped due to tax dollars (god forbid!), bitching about the government's priorities in budget would be more appropriate. IMO
Again, there are more than two alternatives. I am not suggesting that the money used to buy this woman a house should have been used to buy another cluster bomb instead. What if, instead, the money had been left in the hands of those who earned it to use as they saw fit? Wouldn't that be better for everyone (except the moochers, of course)?
