What are some items that you don't want your taxes to be used for?

The Pentagon.

Weapons of Mass Destruction and yet – they are. That’s kind of the thing about living in a society; you don’t get to pick and choose.

Well, kinda off topic, but I really hate that I use one tax refund to pay for my house taxes. It pisses me off.

Well, basically I don’t want my taxes to be spent on anything other than education and defense. IMHO, pretty much everything else the government should keep their nose out of.

Creationist science lessons in schools otherwise you end up with crap like this

Tons of things. But like @janbb stated, you don’t get to choose. And, that’s a good thing. I don’t get to withhold my tax money from funding military invasions and my neighbor can’t withhold his tax money from going to supplemental nutritional assistance.

Religious schools, the teaching of creationism.

“Preemptive” war
The war on drugs
The Department of Homeland Security
(hundreds of billions of dollars, securing nothing, eroding our civil liberties)

How about the Federal Air Marshal Service. It costs $200 million an arrest. How exactly is that a cost effective way to make air travel safer?

Paying higher prices for items that should be cheaper ($1,000 toilet seats, and hammers).
Expensive, luxurious offices.

Weapons.

Anything having to do with war. Anything that has to do with space exploration. Anything that funds anything religious.

I don’t want my tax money used for:Nuclear weapons, anything but education for women in Afghanistan and Iraq, congressional salaries, Congressional staff, Defense contractor CEO pay raises, foreign made products for use by government employees, I could go on but I’ll stop here.

@Lightlyseared That was brilliant. I am also offended by the idea of tax dollars being used to fund teaching religion as science. Not sure that happens in this country, though.

1. Ghetto goblin meth heads who take advantage of section 8 housing and welfare and threaten to burn down my mother’s house and “kill her f*ggot son.” These people absolutely infest my neighborhood and many other areas in my part of the state.

2. Overseas adventures that have nothing to do with promoting peace or national security.

For starters:
● $2.9 million to a group of professors at the University of California-Irvine for researching Internet games like World of Warcraft and Second Life.
● Nearly a quarter of a million dollars to Stanford University to study how people date and find love online.
● $1.8 million for the Neo Boneyard Park and Museum to collect and display discarded neon signs from Las Vegas.
● $1 million to create poetry to help raise awareness of environmental issues.
● $700,000 to study methane gas emissions in cows went to the University of New Hampshire.
● $800,000 to the National Institutes of Health to study genital-washing” of South African men.

Actually, @bkcunningham, I wish I could remember who was talking, but on NPR once I heard a scientist talking about how there always has to be a GOOD reason for any study done, and most of those “idiotic” studies we always hear about are actually part of a larger study that needs to be done, and there is a logical reason for them.

That all sounds nice and may be well and good @GracieT, but when we are facing an outstanding public debt of $15,359,451,148,616 in the US, that’s $49,193 per US citizen, these things being done for a GOOD reason have to stop sometime.

@GracieT “studies we always hear about are actually part of a larger study that needs to be done, and there is a logical reason for them” but how would you like to be the person that had to inspect and record the washing?

Lol.

Promoting hatred, ignorance, illness, poverty and injustice.

Foreign Aid, Welfare, Regulations, Social security, Medicare, Education, Research, Transportation.

Photo radar cameras.