Every dollar the government hands out as foreign aid has to be extorted from an American taxpayer first. Year after year, for decades, the government has forced American taxpayers to provide foreign aid to every type of natural or man-made disaster on the face of the earth:If the American taxpayer wasn't willing to go along with this, the American taxpayer should exercise his right to vote the bums out. The fact is, the overwhelming majority of taxpayers vote for the two major parties, despite KNOWING that the politicians in those two parties will send out the aid every time nature strikes. So, I don't see how the author can say that the government "forced" us to pay or "extorted" the money from us. We voted for it. Frankly, resort to hyperbole like that makes it hard to take any other part of the article - or the idea behind it - seriously.
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"If the American taxpayer wasn't willing to go along with this, the American taxpayer should exercise his right to vote the bums out. The fact is, the overwhelming majority of taxpayers vote for the two major parties, despite KNOWING that the politicians in those two parties will send out the aid every time nature strikes. So, I don't see how the author can say that the government "forced" us to pay or "extorted" the money from us. We voted for it. Frankly, resort to hyperbole like that makes it hard to take any other part of the article - or the idea behind it - seriously. "
So...you voted for a pay raise for congress... I don't remember doing that.