Comment by jalapenos

It's very simple: if you're not spending your own money, so what?

All other discussion is just noise.

If you accept the idea that it's OK for the state to spend 50% of the economy, on things for you or your various self-congratulatory moral-high-horse programs, this is actually where the money will get pissed away to.

It's all carefully avoiding noticing that socialism is theft because maybe you might get a sniff of the loot.