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I don't. Every time a child is burned alive, every time hundreds are made homeless by a drone strike, every time a book is banned, every time an innocent is murdered by police, I'm part of that, I funded that. I hate it.
The tough part is that you are both correct.
Yup. Like with most things related to governing, it's necessary, but exploitable. It needs regulation, but the bigger it gets, the harder it is to regulate, but if we made it smaller, it wouldn't be effective enough.
With zero taxes modern society would fall and the outcomes don't change for the better either.
All of the problems you listed would be minuscule compared to finding something to eat or a dry place to lay your head to sleep where you would be safe.
"But what if I was the local strongman?"
-Libertarians
Right, child murder is required when you pay taxes. That's international law
It's not like I get to choose what is spent on, and yeah a shitload of it goes towards child murder. More of my money is spent hurting people than helping them.
If it makes you feel better, that's not true. More discretionary spending is on "defense." But roughly 2/3 of the full budget is mandatory spending which largely is social security, Medicare, medicaid, TANF, and SNAP and also includes education and transportation as smaller pieces.