Taxes; politicians taking the money you earn to spend as they like

Taxes are necessary to pay for the critical governmental functions defined in the Constitution; such as defending the country.  But more and more taxes are simply a way for politicians to steal what we the people earn and use it for their own selfish ends.

Obama spent nearly a trillion of our dollars on a "stimulus" package that didn't in fact improve the economy; but it sure improved the bottom line for his supporters like the founders of Solyndra.

Democrats are constantly pushing for higher taxes, the only differences among the leading Democrat candidates are about how much more of our money should belong to them, which they use not for critical tasks but to buy votes to ensure they stay in office.

But the vast majority of our taxes goes to help the poor you say.  You're right of course defense only takes up about 15% of the Federal budget and the vast majority goes to "help the poor".  The problem is program to help the poor generally are more about buying votes by creating a dependent class than about helping the truly needy.

Did you know that 64% of the people on welfare have either cable or satellite TV?  Did you know that 80% of "poor" families in America have air conditioning; back in 1970 only 36% of all households had air conditioning?  More than 1/2 of "poor" families with children have a video game system.

That's right your hard earned tax dollars are going to provide luxuries for the "poor" in America.  Now if those people were all incapable of working due to a handicap or a medical issue no one would mind but that's rarely the case.  Similarly if people got government benefits for only a short period of time as they're getting back on their feet we the people would be ok with it.

But that's not the case.  For example when Maine require able bodied childless adults who were receiving food stamps to either work, go to school, or provide community service 80% of them dropped out of the program.  They clearly didn't need the money and they clearly didn't want to work.

Historically we call those types of people bums.  We know that they don't spend their money in a responsible way; over half of them spend, on average, over $100 a month on cigarettes. Yet Democrats are demanding that we the people give more of our hard earned money to support bums.

Democrats have even admitted that they believe that people who are able to work but who don't want to work should have a nice lifestyle supplied by the taxes the government takes from hard working Americans; it was a key part of Democrat darling Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal.

Just as Democrats try to hide behind the very rare 12 year old girl who was raped by her father when they really support abortion for any reason, including because the unborn child is a girl, at any time up till some period of time after birth they cite poor starving children to justify their support for ensuring that bums who don't want to work can live comfortably at the expense of lower middle class Black families.

For Democrats taxes aren't about doing what the Constitution says the government should do they're about buying votes.  In ancient Rome the politicians used their own money to provide bread and circuses to buy votes but in modern America Democrats steal the money; which is why they tend to get so rich.

Next time you hear some Democrat saying how we have to increase taxes remember they want your money so they can keep getting elected not because they give a darn about you or the country.