> Taxes pay for all sorts of things in society. They pay for childhood education, they build roads, they pay for services like fire departments. What's the gov

> Taxes pay for all sorts of things in society. They pay for childhood education, they build roads, they pay for services like fire departments. What's the government doing by just collecting its citizens hard earned money? It should also invest in companies and other ventures and make its own money. It also has natural resources (oil, natural gas, etc.) at its disposal. Only if those are not enough can it ask its citizens to pitch in.