Growing up, I got free lunches in school, and in college I got the maximum Pell Grant every semester for four years straight. I thank my lucky stars for those

Growing up, I got free lunches in school, and in college I got the maximum Pell Grant every semester for four years straight. I thank my lucky stars for those things and am very glad the government did it. Of course, given the amount I pay in taxes, the government made an absolutely terrific investment. I have returned that value to it many, many times over. All else being equal, of course I would prefer to pay lower taxes. That's what efficiency means, and the government is not very efficient. But "Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society." (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.), and I kinda like civilized society. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/275/87/case.html https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/275/87/case.html