Teenyuck,
Talking of the British Government, they 'owe' us in the sense that they screw the working man for every penny in tax that they can and then don't provide the services that they promise.
Just think of the amount of tax we pay:
Just to drive our car we have to pay tax on the purchase of the car, we then have to buy road tax (+£150 per year). We then have to pay over £3.20 per gallon of fuel (80% of which is tax ) and now we are being asked to pay congestion charges to use roads that we have already paid to use.
We pay national insurance contributions. I pay over £160 per month but the NHS is not providing the health care that it should.
I pay over £450 per month in income tax. Then I have to pay £795 per year council tax for local services. £350 per year for water and the list goes on and on.
The people who are voted into power are there to represent the needs of the community that elected them. But they don't.
Our government needs to run the country but not try and excessively run the lives of the people it governs. Britain is becoming a nanny state. There are rules and laws for everything and it's getting ridiculous.
A news article showed last week that the members of the Russian Moscow State Circus now have to wear Hard-hats when performing!! How stupid is that.
Yes the government do owe us. They owe us to listen to us when we disagree with policy and they owe us to live in freedom and the right to run our own lives without camera's watching our every move.