HUH??? OK. Maybe a small percentage of that goes to "causes." But most of it goes to stuff that you use...

I assume that you do not ride a horse or walk everywhere. You probably drive a car -- on roads -- roads that are paved -- with street lights. You get my point -- taxes pay for all of that. Same for police and fire departments. Are you married? The paperwork was filed in a courthouse paid for by taxes. Do you take any perecription or OTC medications? I bet that your BOB or PSK has at least some medication in it. I am glad that we have the FDA to make sure that those medications don't kill you.

Also, the days of the minutemen are over. No nation could expect to be defeneded by a bunch of volunteers who just show up with their squirrel guns. We need a military. You can argue about how large it should be and what we should be doing with it, but we still need one.

I notice that you are on the internet -- which was born from a DARPA (military) project.

I can understand completely the political issues involved in where your tax money goes. But most of the tax money goes for things that directly benefit you. I certainly wish that my taxes were lower, and some of that money is certainly wasted or spent on causes that I may disagree with. But I am quite happy to pay the majority of it, and feel that I am getting quite a bit in return.