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Per OP question - securing, protecting, defending the natural individual rights of the citizens, or those things that are rights/powers an individual legally possesses, but chooses to delegate to the government, so long as it benefits every citizen equally and harms no citizen in the process. For example, we have the natural individual right to self-defense, and can this delegate that right on the state and national scale to state and national military forces. The military defends all Americans equally because they defend the nation as a whole, and we can agree to delegate our own self-defense to an entity better skilled/equipped to do it.
Kept to that set of standards, roughly 80% of what the government does is useless, criminal, tyranny, etc.
Our taxes pay for whatever the politicians WE ELECT say they pay for. Voters are to blame if we don't like the results. As an electorate, we is stupid.......
“The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States”
This is what the constitution says. For more information, look to Article I section 8 of the constitution. It's pretty straight forward. To provide for what's best for the country. It's vague enough that other things could be done that aren't specifically stated, but it makes clear that some things should not be tax funded (at the very least, but he federal government).
As a general rule, maintaining the military (to a reasonable extent, which we have far exceeded), infrastructure, and certain social programs is something tax dollars can go to.
Our taxes pay for whatever the politicians WE ELECT say they pay for. Voters are to blame if we don't like the results. As an electorate, we is stupid.......
True. However, for example, who would have guessed that candidate for governor, Scott Walker, would increase state spending on Medicaid!
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As Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker touts his budget's ability to hold the line on state expenses, one area continues its steady increase of recent years: Health services — specifically Medicaid.
The biggest cause of a two-year, $1 billion increase in Walker's budget appropriations is $663 million in mostly Medicaid-related increases for the state Department of Health Services.
Walker proposes increasing the health services budget by nearly $263 million in fiscal 2016 and by another $136.8 million in fiscal 2017.
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