Taxes & Tea Parties

Few things get my blood pressure boiling as much as people who complain about taxes. I don't mind paying taxes because I know that without taxes so much of what we take for granted would not exist. So, if you think paying taxes is un-American, fine, then don't pay them. But then you don't deserve and cannot use or enjoy the following: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public schools, the interstate highway system, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, habeus corpus, national parks, clean water, clean air, the right to vote in national elections, Pell Grants, homeland security, the military, and so on and so forth. Without taxes you don't have a nation. It's called looking beyond your own selfish interests and supporting the greater good.