"Our tax dollars end up channeled to special interests or spent on useless wars or utterly wasted." Not only tax dollars. All the new money we print too, which

"Our tax dollars end up channeled to special interests or spent on useless wars or utterly wasted." Not only tax dollars. All the new money we print too, which is a tax in effect, devaluing dollars and favoring those who can grow their wealth with the inflation (either those receiving newly printed money, businesses with pricing power, investors, or workers who can demand raises).