@dwinblood not to worry, very little of our tax dollars are spent on these programs; the government takes in far less in taxes than it spends so our "contributions" amount to little more than a rounding error.
Very often, the government "compassion" that people clamor for results in far more pain and suffering than the problem it was meant to solve.
Case in point, that bad man in Iraq needs to go so that we can help all of the people he is oppressing.
Oops, a few million dead and displaced, but at least that bad man (that we gave WMD's to so he could use them against those other bad people, who's government we overthrew) isn't oppressing them anymore.
Why don't those ungrateful pieces of shit give us the love and respect we deserve?
Whew, we dodged a bullet there.
Who can we "help" next?
Keep speaking truth, some of us hear it.