Koan, that's so funny. You don't "give" your money willingly. You don't have a choice. They take it. You might pretend you do it willingly, but that's a lie. When you get a chance to avoid tax, you do. Also, you don't "let" your representative democracy decide, they decide against your will - you do NOT agree with all they do but there is nothing you can do about it. You don't have a choice. All you can do is vote.
< I pay very high federal taxes and am glad to do so. > What you really mean is you are glad others have to do so because you are a recipient of their money. You pay a negligible portion of the total - an infinitesimally trivial nothing, but collect a dirty great income from the public purse which is so huge you can afford to pay some of it back again to your paymasters, in the pretence that you also pay tax.
Sending it around in a loop from your paymasters to you and back again isn't magnanimity on your part though you might fool yourself into thinking you are "doing your share".
You won't give your money to me to do something useful with it because you are selfish, greedy, egocentric, ignorant, stupid, and have no concern for other people.
<And I would never give my money to you because you seem like a selfish person to me.> It's all about you.
I see that you and that wondrously deep humanitarian of perspicacious intelligence, Wharfie, both are soon pushing the insults around. I'm not a selfish person, though that's a great insult in your book. My list of insults was longer than yours and my father's a policeman.
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