When people say they want the government to use their tax money in ways that benefit them, they're not asking for a handout. It's our money, and we have a right to say how we want our money used.

I notice the very same kinds of people who say that it's our money and the government should give it back to us are the ones who say that people don't have a right to tell the government how to use the money we give them.

If we give the government money to use in ways that will help us accomplish things that each person cannot accomplish on their own, that is when the government is doing what it's supposed to be doing. That's the whole point of government. If we give the government money and then we tell them what to do with it, we are doing exactly what we have a right to do as taxpayers. It's our money - it's our government - we own it, and we are its boss. We give the government money specifically for this purpose. We don't pay the government so that it can set up a private standing army, as it'd doing now, we don't pay the government to build an empire as it's been doing, we don't pay the government to crush other peoples' democracies, as it's been doing for decades. We pay the government to do for us what individually, people cannot do on their own.