&gt; This mindset that the government should be spending tax revenue on anything beneficial is bizarre.<p>Anything? Did they say that? Health care of citizens is not &quot;anything&quot;, it is a very imporant thing. More important than military, guns, flying to the moon, and many other things. So yes, they should be spending the hell of out of that tax revenue to keeps citizens healthy, productive and not have hundreds of millions of chronically sick patients all needing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of care every couple of years.