>>As for the rest of the list - the bulk of those NO votes are voting not to spend money.
>>Somebody has to pay for that spending.
>>This is not a theoretical - that money must be taken away from somebody else.
>>My mother nearly lost our childhood home to insane increases in property taxes before California passed proposition 13.
>>Our lives would have certainly turned out differently had she lost the house.
>>So - there are 4 kids and 2 parents who would have been harmed by increasing taxation.
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>>Spending other people's money with wild abandon is not charity.
>>It may be good politics to pretend the money is free - but it most certainly is not.
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>So you agree that the military-industrial complex is out of control?

The entire thing is out of control.
Government is growing for the good of the government, people be damned.