use my tax money for anything. The IRS is just a "currency sink" to bleed off heat in the economy. All payments to the IRS die at the IRS. The money isn't "sent" anywhere, my bank account is simply debited and my dollars die right there. They don't go to the war, the deficit, a slush fund or any other private or govenment destination anywhere on earth or any other point in the universe be it real or abstract. The IRS takes in X Billion and pays the US Government $0.00 Billion dollars and not one damn cent. Dollars check in, but they don't check out. It's a literal "The Buck Stops Here" scenario, whether it's greenback or electronic. It simply doesn't recirculate to anywhere. Not theory, but simple verifiable fact. 1b. When the US Government spends, it just changes numbers in the appropriate spreadsheets. It didn't get anything from the IRS, NOBODY got anything from the IRS. It doesn't care about the IRS unless it needs to cool off the economy and destroy private sector spending power by increasing taxes (which then go into a black hole that no government or private entity or individual ever sees again). 1c. The US Government doesn't have to GET money from anywhere in order to spend. Not from me, you, any foreign person or entity or any OTHER DOMESTIC person or entity (government or private). It doesn't HAVE any money in the first place. 1d. When the US Government spends, it moves