To me this hits on a separate, but connected issue. Every single government welfare, tax payer hand out, can be justified by someone somewhere.
The problem is, at some point you have to say, no... we're not going to hand out more money to people that didn't earn it, by taking it from people who did earn it.
Imagine, if you will, how much money would be available at all levels of our country if our government didn't collect 2 Trillion, 699 Billion dollars from us?
Nearly 1.9 Trillion of that income is spent on unconstitutional things. Pretend for a moment that $58 Billion dollars was sent back to each state... you think maybe the people of Alaska could afford the stupid bridge? Yeah very likely. The problem is, we have to start drastically cutting government, which means some tough choices.
Like Social Security has to go. It isn't working, it never worked, it won't work in the future, the politicians have spent the money, no body believes it's going to be there for them when they retire. They constantly cut benefits while raising taxes. When are we going to say enough, and end this stupid failed socialism?
But see everyone is going to claim that they need this government hand outs for some reason, just like every government hand out. Like alternative fuel hand outs, and research grants that never produce anything, and billions handed out to Ted Turner for Ethanol, and a million here, and a million there, and Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, Sallie Mae, and every time, we dig ourselves in more dependent on government, and yet when the budget cuts come, as they always do, we cry like we didn't realize socialism doesn't work.
At some point you have to say enough. If we don't, it's just a matter of time before we end up a 3rd world country, and wondering why everything sucks so bad.