Not Yours to Give

[eppie]

As for your bus example, it isn't hard to find examples of tax money getting spent on stupid things. To draw the conclusion that taxes should be nigh-abolished from that would be jumping to extremes.

I fully agree. People don't often realize how much they owe to our social system (with a government, taxes etc.).
Letting people chose what to pay for first costs an enormous amount of administrative work, and second will never yield enough funds.

One good thing: I think we we would be rid of all the wining of people that want more and bigger roads.