My main issue, I suppose, is that the U.S. government can afford to spend 500 billion dollars a year on the military and additional billions on persecuting weed...but there isn't any money to provide health care services or to do something, anything, about the appallingly ubiquitous poverty and economic inequality. Tax dollars could go towards a world of good, but instead it goes towards bombs, anti-drug propaganda, and favours for fat and greedy CEOs. And what's with churches being tax-free?....taxing the living hell out of them would provide a shitload of revenue.

Yes, religion and war are related, hence the faith-based delusions of moral superiority on both sides. Back to taxing churches...if they had to pay for the war, they might stop yelling for it so loudly.

As a conscientious objector, I should have the right to demand that not one penny of my taxes go towards the military, but apparently personal ideals and convictions do not matter to a government that takes an individual's income and does with it what they please. That would be like taking a Palestinian refugee's tax dollars and spending it on Israeli aid. Total lack of respect.