The reason it's seen as adversarial is probably the same reason that Congress has an approval around 20% or so. It's not the fact that you're giving up money pe

The reason it's seen as adversarial is probably the same reason that Congress has an approval around 20% or so. It's not the fact that you're giving up money per se, it's the fact that you're giving up money to people you can't stand to do things you're morally opposed to and have no recourse to redress. I'd like it if taxes were earmarked by the people filing their returns. Say that there's a number of categories that you can assign percentages to.. defense, education, etc. An unpopular war? The people withhold defense funding. You get the idea - a lot more representative of the will of the people.