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Originally Posted by fjtorres
...It has culminated in a populist movement supported by 30-40% of the electorate who resent all the taxes and the waste they support; ...
The premise that tax monies goes to provide essential services to all is demonstrably false: ...
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Certainly there is waste, but if taxes don't pay for bridges, roads, schools, police, military, social services, etc. then what does?
ETA: We elect the government. We (collectively) have no one to blame but ourselves.