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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
During the last Olympics it was suggested that there should be a base taxes that everyone pays into and "optional taxes" for things such as Olympic training. So in such a case, since the former is mandatory and the latter optional, money wasted from Olympic training program would not be "wasting our money". By your logic, it is the choice to pay that determines whether it is "our" money or not?
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It's not the choice, it's the fact that you are exchange the money for a product.
If you exchange YOUR money for something like a tank of gas, it's no longer your money. Why would you have any say over the money you gave a company to purchase their product?
Taxes are basically supposed to be spent on our behalf to provide us with government services etc, so when it's not spent on something that benefits us, I would consider that somewhat wasteful.