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No, that's bs.

And we don't technically live in a democacy. A large percentage of Americans don't even pay federal income tax, so why should they get to decide where federal income tax dollars get spent?

Sure, they pay payroll taxes, but those are for Social Security and Medicare, where there is at least some expected benefit. People who pay federal income taxes pay those taxes as well.

Under a Democracy, government is directed by the desire of a majority of citizens, inevitably leading to its downfall when, as the British intellectual Alexander Tyler once said, "the majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury."

We are heading in that direction quite quickly. Although in this case, it's not voting themselves money, it's voting for money to be spent on some country that has never done anything for us.