How it works...idiots

It seems that we need to make everyone go back to the 7th grade and take Civics all over again. Every day I hear otherwise intelligent people go on an on about how taxes are bad and how the government is out to get our money and so on. Everyone needs to let go of their medieval peasant point of view. That is one of the reasons we created The United States, so we would not live in servitude. Your taxes are the money you pitch in with everyone else so we can have a country, if you have become wealthy due to the advantages of living in this country, your part will be more. Taxes are not the same in the USA as they were when the king sent someone to collect. The wort thing is that many of our elected officials need to read that textbook the most.