How about abusive taxes ? Shouldn´t they be considered immmediately as corruption, no matter how those funds are used ? The example of Argentina: if you are an independent worker or small company owner, you have to pay:
21% of your GROSS income, for Tax on Added Value (federal)
3% of your GROSS income for Tax On Gross Income (city)
6% additional of your services expenses like electricity, gas, public lights, street maintenance, and telephone (federal)
16% of your income for Federal Social Security (you obtain 180 dollar pension after 30 years, if you are 65 or older)(federal)
8% compulsive social security savings on any private company which makes investments for you, but does not guarantee any earnings (last year´s statistics shows a neutral index - nobody got interests)
3% compulsive commission , unrecoverable, for those companies (Half local, half US and European capitals).
Finally, if you worked hard, your balance is still positive, then applies 35% of your net earnings in excess of elementary expenses (no more than 18000 dollars/year per family) for Tax on Enrichment(!)
Of course, there are additional taxes on cars, boats, real estate of any kind, travel abroad, use of airports, highway tolls, beverages 40%(alcoholic or not), tobacco 200%,etc.etc. So, how and where in the world could you find a single person who will not incurr in concealment of his earnings, and will keep out of the illegal market ?
Back to the subject of the good use of that funds: would you think that, with all that massive income (more than 50% of the national product), will the government build a Shangri-La of a country, with all kind of assistance to people, with no poverty, no injustice, and plenty of culture ?? NAH, NAH.
One more ! Each time you perform a show in a public place, paid or not, you should contribute a minimum a 100 $ or a % of the tickets, for the Society of Authors Dead or Alive Public Domain Or Not, plus 21% Added Value plus 3% municipal tax!

Government corruption is the first, but who elected them ? Us. Sadly, the corrupts are ourselves, and are only waiting for our opportunity to climb up there and steal our part. Oops, I´m rather pesimistic tonight. I´ll try to bribe Gimenez (our dog officer) to make him shake his tail for me. Got to go to the refrigerator.bybye.
Un abrazo - Andrés