Things Cost Money!!
(Nothing demonstrates this clearer than this Real-Time View of Debt in the United States.).
It it seems that this basic reality escapes the culture of the average U.S. Politician or Citizen Voter. I know this because tax-payer subsidized Progressive, Idealist Programs like "the War on (drugs, terror, whatever), Social Security, Medicaid, Public Welfare, the PETA, etc.:
- Were Actually Initiated, and
- Still Exist.