According to the number crunchers with the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, in order to spend money it doesn't have on programs it can't afford, the government is borrowing roughly $6 billion a day.
According to the Committee for a Reasonable Federal Budget, the interest we've paid on this borrowed money is "Nearly twice what the federal government will spend on transportation infrastructure, over four times as much as it will spend on K-12 education, almost four times what it will spend on housing, and over eight times what it will spend on science, space, and technology."
If Americans managed their personal finances the way the government mismanages the nation's finances, we'd all be in debtors' prison by now.
Despite the government propaganda being peddled by the politicians and news media the government isn't spending our tax dollars to make our lives better.
Unsurprisingly, the government has used its tax powers to advance its own imperialistic agendas and the courts have repeatedly upheld the government's power to penalize or jail those who refused to pay their taxes.
While we're struggling to get by, and making tough decisions about how to spend what little money actually makes it into our pockets after the federal, state and local governments take their share, the government continues to do whatever it likes-levy taxes, rack up debt, spend outrageously and irresponsibly-with little thought for the plight of its citizens.
We're also being forced to shell out money for surveillance systems to track our movements, money to further militarize our already militarized police, money to allow the government to raid our homes and bank accounts, money to fund schools where our kids learn nothing about freedom and everything about how to comply, and on and on.
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