I may be a Liberal (or as they say in areas outside of Austin, Librul) but even I find paying taxes to be on par with mosquito bites. Nobody enjoys them (short of Ned Flanders) yet they’re an inevitable fact of life few can escape, people like near the polar caps are the only people I can think of. My point is, as I’ve grown older, learned more about infrastructure, the interconnectivity of life, hopefully become more empathetic with other humans and boned up on history.
John Oliver’s interesting and comedic piece makes a good point. Everyone loves the things civilization has, they just don’t want to pay for it, especially the One Percent who benefit the most from it. I don’t mind paying taxes, I just wish more of it went to better things such as schools, space exploration, daycare and medical research not bombs, corporate welfare and projects to ungrateful, hypocritical Teabaggers and “Christians.” The dilemmas Oliver’s team points out demonstrates how the Republican Congress continues to put America on the road to suicide. Without revenue being collected, it will be rather difficult to pay for their precious pork projects despite all the poor people they’ve starved.