Taxes - How does the governement get money?

I read an article named Bush has no right to spend taxes pushing religious values and totally agree with it. It talks about how President bush feels that he has the right to spend the money that comes out of our pocket to spread his influence and his beliefs for public schools, agencies and reason. This is an example of how the federal government spends tax money that they collect from us. Things like military, parks, jails are all part of the federal government "bill" so to speak.



As read on the article How Washington Will Spend Your Taxes In 2005, the federal government spends an average of $22,039 on each household. That amount of money is divided into subgroups of the following: Social Security/Medicare, Defense, Low income programs, interest on the federal debt, federal employee retirement benefits, education, health research, veteran benefits, highways/other transit, justice administration, unemployment benefits, international affairs, natural resource environments, and lastly agriculture. So as you can see each household is spent a very low income and it's spent on a whole lot pf things that we mostly have nothing to do with and the government takes that money that we get no benefit from, out of our paychecks.



I think that a lot of people do not realize how much the government takes advantage and steals our hard earned money off of taxes to please their needs that don't concern us in any way. I strongly disagree with that and I think that needs to change because nothing is being done about it and we are the ones that are paying the price at the end of the day!