The US government spends most of its money (roughly in order) on:
-Wall Street Bailout
-Military Spending (which, in large part, means pre-emptively attacking sovereign nations we don't like)
-Inefficient entitlement programs
-Interest on our existing debt
If memory serves, only about ~5% of our money goes to what I would consider really worthwhile programs like NASA and education. You can up that to about 20% if you include things like roads, infrastructure maintenance, 'vital services', and so on.
I imagine that Derek prefers to have more control over where his hard earned money goes.
-Wall Street Bailout
-Military Spending (which, in large part, means pre-emptively attacking sovereign nations we don't like)
-Inefficient entitlement programs
-Interest on our existing debt
If memory serves, only about ~5% of our money goes to what I would consider really worthwhile programs like NASA and education. You can up that to about 20% if you include things like roads, infrastructure maintenance, 'vital services', and so on.
I imagine that Derek prefers to have more control over where his hard earned money goes.