&gt; We live in a democratic society and I believe our government should use the money we give them via taxes to help take in refugees.<p>This is not a zero-sum game, If government pays it via taxes they have to stop paying something else or increase taxes.<p>That is not what irks me most though. What irks me most is that we could help a whole lot more people, -and less fortunate people at that, if we applied the same resources in the neighboring countries instead of giving those resourceful enough to cross Europe &quot;golden tickets&quot;.<p>I would be <i>happy</i> to pay a little <i>extra</i> tax for that, if I knew the money would be spent helping those poor souls that are now hunting cats in the ruins of those towns instead of the current golden tickets mostly to young men who leave their families behind,