Doug, I was exaggerating to make a point. Taxes is the price we pay for a free society. Kim C. I should also like to have a say in where my taxes go, but, I'll bet you my cuts would be different from yours, and Doug would have his favorites too. THAT'S why we have government.

Why should I pay to have Lawrence Welk's boyhood home rebuilt? I get infuriated with Tom Brokaw's FLEECING OF AMERICA; the money we piss away on pork barrel projects would build a new school in every city.

If I had my way, the military industrial complex would not be allowed to force un needed, un wanted weapons systems on the Pentagon just to get some politician re elected.