This is gonna trip you up, but...
To all you people who say “These are my tax dollars!” / “You can’t spend MY money on ###!!”
Guess what? No, it isn’t.
Once you pay into it, it’s not your money anymore. It belongs to the people.
It is to be used for what the people decided it needs to be used for, by all the people, not just the people that share your religion or your ideals. Everyone, indiscriminately.
It will come back to you in one way or another if you have roads, bridges, street signs, libraries, schools, if you’re a participant in state programs like state insurance, WiC, TANF, and the like. But that STILL doesn’t make it yours to dictate the use of!
So if your tax dollars went to defense or infrastructure, or the homeless, or the veterans, or the children, or the needy, it’s none of your fucking business to argue against it now. It was already voted on, already decided. That’s what the fucking government does. Be more active in your local politics before such things are put into place if it really trips your fucking trigger, but be mindful of the fact people are people in their own right and YOU DO NOT DICTATE HOW THEY LIVE. You do not get to decide their lives based on your own perception of morality or ideals, either.
If you have a problem with tax dollars being spent on any number of hot button issues- on health care like abortions and preventative care- then that’s your own problem. You don’t get to dictate that their health is worth less than what you paid in to the tax system. It’s out of your hands. The tax dollars are there to help the people, to keep the country running. It is FROM the people FOR the people, even to the benefit of those who can’t pay taxes, like the unemployed, disabled, or children.
Your argument that it was ‘your tax dollars’ is irrelevant. It’s the entire point- it was tax dollars. Taxes to be used for the country, which means for the people. All the people. All colors, all races, all sexes, all genders, all religions or lack thereof, every conceivable type of person, all part of the country you live in, even some just arriving here seeking shelter, that you paid taxes into for their benefit. Not. Just. Yours.
You can’t claim it as yours and then deny the assistance to those who need it, because they don’t follow your code of ethics or conduct or religion or generosity or otherwise.
