I support paying taxes for the things government should be providing (national defense, regulation of trade, and maintenance of infrastructure), but when they take more than that they are removing capital that the market would spend in other pursuits.

On top of all that, even when the government does turn around and try to inject capital back into the economy they are VERY inefficient at it. The government is a huge bureaucracy and has to pay itself first to keep itself alive. Also, monies injected back into the economy by the government suffer from the politics and partisanship that all of government is beholden to, so when the money is spent it is spent how the politicians see fit and not necessarily how the market would see fit.

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But it does kick ass being able to tell people, "Why, yes I am a rocket scientist."

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