The reason it&#x27;s seen as adversarial is probably the same reason that Congress has an approval around 20% or so. It&#x27;s not the fact that you&#x27;re giving up money per se, it&#x27;s the fact that you&#x27;re giving up money to people you can&#x27;t stand to do things you&#x27;re morally opposed to and have no recourse to redress.<p>I&#x27;d like it if taxes were earmarked by the people filing their returns. Say that there&#x27;s a number of categories that you can assign percentages to.. defense, education, etc. An unpopular war? The people withhold defense funding. You get the idea - a lot more representative of the will of the people.