These aren't just a few percent. Defense spending itself is a fifth of the budget [1]. Regardless of how much of the budget each of these items are, the point i

These aren't just a few percent. Defense spending itself is a fifth of the budget [1]. Regardless of how much of the budget each of these items are, the point is that these are paid through taxes. Corporate taxes are just another one of the many forms of taxation we have, so while you can make an argument to simplify these, or to cut some spending, it's silly to characterize taxation itself as some sort of robbery. Your western standards of living would not exist if not for the things that society has deemed appropriate for government to do. 1. http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=1258 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=1258