Slag, I have no objection to paying taxes...providing those taxes are used for good purposes which benefit the general public and the nation.

For instance, in my country (Canada) we need roads, a legal system, hospitals, medicare, schools, utilities, communications systems, a reasonable-sized armed forces (the USA's are totally unreasonable in size), police, local and provincial and federal goverments to run all these various things, and so on...

All that requires us paying some taxes, and that's okay with me. I know that the government needs some money to carry on, and I hardly see how they can get it if they don't collect some taxes.

I don't regard their taxing me as robbery...UNLESS they take far more from me than what they fairly should and UNLESS they use it for purposes not in accordance with the good of the public or the nation.

Accordingly, if I were an American I guess I'd be pretty upset right now about how a very large part of my taxes are being used (mainly in regards to the Iraq War).