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Fair enough - there's charitable contributions too. (To the conservative's church (provided of course it's the right sort of church, without too many poor people); or to the conservative's (often Ivy League or religious) university; or to organisations the conservative supports ideologically (eg foundations which seek to "cure" being gay)).The government, on the other hand, wastes tax money by spending it on healthcare, infrastructure, welfare, defence, universal education and useless things like that. Do you know, they hardly spend a penny on churches, or the other things conservatives tend to like to give to by way of charity ? Governments are bloody useless, aren't they ?

Oh I don't know - not for certain - but I took the examples from Mitt Romney's tax returns.

Ah, reductio ad absurdum - one of the many refuges of the crap argument.The government does many things, some fun, but most of it is shovelling shit. Take away the government, and no one picks up the shovel.

Presumably you're aware that Huxley's and Orwell's target was dictatorships, and not democracies ?

Except, of course, that's not how we think. So you're knocking down straw men - another hallmark of a pathetic argument.