Reply #84: If this were an opt-in society, I'd agree 100%

[The2ndWheel]

This is not an opt-in society however. If you were to choose to opt-out of financially supporting these wars, either your time, or your money, will be taken away, no matter what you think. As you said in a response above, the act of trying to opt-out is small and ineffective. You wouldn't be stopping a damn thing.

Another thing you said I would agree with. We do have the power to change things. But, it would take a lot of people to do it. Since you don't get to pick and choose which taxes you pay, it'll take a lot of people not paying their taxes to put a stop to this. If a lot of people do that though, then a lot of other people who depend on those taxes will be hurt.

As they say; you can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the game. No matter which you choose to do, there will be consequences. Either to yourself, or collectively. Maybe both at the same time. Maybe to people you'll never meet, maybe to people close to you.

If we allowed people to pick and choose which taxes they wanted to pay, none of this would work. That only brings up other questions though.