> In democracies money going to governments isn't sucked to some kind of vacuum. It's reinvested in infrastructure, social programs, investment programs, etc.

In practice it mostly goes to other rich people/corporations and affluent retirees.

Around half of federal revenues go to retirees (and disproportionately to the affluent ones), another trillion+ dollars goes to defense/VA contractors, another trillion dollars goes to interest (i.e. other rich people/corporations), and then all the rest of it combined is less than any one of those things individually.

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Hikikomori 2 days ago | parent [-]

That the American system is broken doesn't mean we shouldn't have a government.

	▲	AnthonyMouse a day ago \| parent [-]
		If the money is currently going to the wrong places, and collecting more money only causes it to go to the same places, then you need to focus on getting the existing money to go to the right places and prove that you can actually accomplish that before "just collect more money" becomes anything resembling a reasonable proposal. At which point you wouldn't need to collect more money, because there is already scads of money being collected, it's just going to the wrong things.