Ha, ha.
There you go again. Posting totally false statements.
You need to understand just who paid these taxes in the first place.
Your cute little reverse Robin hood analagy totally misses the mark.
That's a very important fact that we all need to remember.....it's our money!
I know whose money it is! Legislators keep writing laws to increase tax havens for themselves and those who lobby aka bribe them. This is where my analogy stems from.
I can tell you first hand I am VERY aware of how many loop holes exist in our tax code. I can also tell you the only people I know who take advantage of them are well to do and are able to hire good accountants to bury their money and keep the govt out of their pockets. The average 9-5'er doesn't not dick about taxes and just fills out there 1040 and gets raped by the gov't. I know how this **** works. Wheelhouse isn't my day job, its purely so I can loose money on my taxes. Last year I didn't pay a penny of income tax and barely cleared the poverty line. Crazy for someone with a brand new turbo'd sled right?!
And again I'm fine with social programs. ****s hard out there for a LOT of people, go tour around the rural south or inner cities. If you can say gut social programs after that, you got a colder heart then me.
When the interest on our increased federal deficit is larger then what we are gutting from programs, there is STILL a problem. We are still working in the red. But congress knows this, not like it matters to them if they crash the economy again, doesn't hurt their pension.