Paul Thomas, CPA wrote:
"Myal" wrote

Its your patriotic DUTY to hand that money over
to be spent by politicians on themselves , their
careers , to buy votes and run propoganda
campaigns , invade other countries .... and use a
tiny % on welfare of folk who are down and out






I don't see paying taxes as a "patriotic duty", but it's an obligation that
has to be met.

Also, the US budget spends about $700 BILLION toward Health and Human
Services. Hardly "tiny" in total dollars or percentage of the total budget.
There's over $600 BILLION spent on Social Security benefits. Roughly $1.3
Billion out of a total of close to $2.8 Billion in expenditures. Not quite
half, but not "tiny" by a long shot.

Should they spend less elsewhere? Maybe so. But that's not the point you
were trying to make.





compared to military spending ...

but you still totaly miss the point and are insisting on measuing human
life in terms of $$ only