Should the federal government be allowed to give money collected?

Question

from income taxes to governments or causes even though many american citizens don't want their money going to those governments or causes?

Answer 1

It is the job of the United States Congress to decide how our taxes are spent.

If spending money on a particular project or cause is unpopular then it is the responsibility of the American people to inform their elected representatives, or elect new representatives that share their view point.

That is how a representative republic functions.

Answer 2

I am totally against the Iraq War, but my money is used to keep it going, much of it disappearing because of waste and fraud.

I even listened to the Bush plan of sending Iraqi youth to college, training them for jobs, building stores, businesses, etc.....while our country's youth have to sink into debt for college and frequently can't find jobs.

I was against $70 million of my tax money being used to nose around in Clinton's past and his wife's past for twenty years back, with everything from Whitewater to their private lives under scrutiny.

I was against the highest civilian honor being presented in a neat little ceremony to George Tenet and a few others. My tax money paid for that corrupt tea party.

But as long as we have a government, we have to respect their right to spend our money. When the spending gets out of hand, which it currently is, you must use the polls to display your disapproval. The right to vote is the American way of saying "Enough!" That's why keeping the elections honest is so important. As long as we have no paper trail, we have no way of knowing what is going on.

Answer 3

No, the federal government should not be allowed to distribute hundreds of millions of dollars to "faith based initiatives."

No, the federal government should not be funding preemptive strikes on sovereign nations in order to enrich cronies of the executive branch, and support totalitarian regimes friendly to family and cronies of the executive branch.

Answer 4

Sure. I don't know where people get this idea that taxpayers shouldn't have to finance anything they don't like. Lots of people don't like tanks or fighter jets, or at least don't like the uses to which those tanks and fighter jets are put. But they still have to pay for them. 70% of the country doesn't like the President but we still pay his salary, and there's nothing wrong with that because we elected him.

Answer 5

Yes cause its the people which we elect that end up sending it where it goes.