People face the highest peacetime tax burden ever. Washington alone takes 40 percent of the nation's economic wealth for its own use. Revenues have been growing 7.6 per cent annually since Bill Clinton's election in 1992, two and a half times the rate of inflation. A burden that would shock the average medieval serf would be more bearable if Americans were getting good value for their money. But the budget today reflects organized looting on a vast scale.
Profitable businesses collect subsidies to invest overseas.
Prosperous elderly cash checks from the young. Farmers bank subsidies to grow crops no one needs. Interest groups get grants to advance their partisan agendas. Voters enjoy the best pork their representatives can deliver. In contrast, programs of genuine national need are few and far between.