curious why in your worldview the government bothers collecting taxes, let alone $3 trillion of it annually. (33% of the GDP.) It seems you think their budget

curious why in your worldview the government bothers collecting taxes, let alone $3 trillion of it annually. (33% of the GDP.) It seems you think their budget comes from the roughly 2% annual inflation rate we've had for the past few years. (1.7% this year.) [1] Taxes collected: http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/current_revenue http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/current_revenue (first paragraph should obviously read 17.3% not 173%) [2] Inflation: http://www.inflation.eu/inflation-rates/united-states/historic-inflation/cpi-inflation-united-states.aspx http://www.inflation.eu/inflation-rates/united-states/histor... (or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_United_States and https://www.google.com/search?q=current+inflation+rate+united+states https://www.google.com/search?q=current+inflation+rate+unite... )