Most federal handouts go to corporations and the wealthy, in particular the military industrial complex. (Gosh remeber Rumsfield telling us all the pentagon could not account for $2.1 trillion)
Your taxes from your paycheck are in fact voluntary, you filled out a W-9, right? Further, just set-up higher deductions and nothing will be taken out. Self employed people voluntarily send-in and pay taxes. Sure threat of prison if we do not, yet this is a separate matter.
One can disenroll from Medicare and no longer pay the Medicare Part B premium of $110 per month. Yet $110 is pretty cheap as a cost share, as the insurance policy has much greater value. Medicare Part A is earned and has no premium cost. Medicare and SS are insurance policies. Try a search engine. FICA. https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc751.html
Taking care of the poor is a good social idea, and is a minimal cost short term and long term. Including the poorly uneducated who lack humility to know when they don't know enough.
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