[amomof4]

I think a big part of the problem is that people want social services. Another part is that people keep voting it in--sometime in disguise as a bond such as a school bond and sometime with fear tactics such as "don't you want you neighborhood safe, if so, we need more funds (taxes) for more police. Other times it is in protest, such as California funding millions of dollars to fund embryonic stem cell research.

Take heart. We have taxation with representation. You select the your senator, and he votes himself a pay raise. Of course you really didn't vote in the tax because no matter who you chose, he would have still voted himself a raise.