We, through the government, impose rules that favor the smart over the strong, that favor creation over acquisition. These rules enable the wealth of our society. But they are not cost-less, nor are they the natural order of things. There is a large class of losers in this system, and I consider government spending that redistributes some of the fruits of societal production to be part of the cost of imposing these rules.

Moreover, many of these expenditures benefit businesses directly. Public education is an enormous subsidy to the business world. My firm's clients are all large companies that collectively employee millions of people educated on the public dime. Since our economy is built on mental activity, rather than manual labor, it is of enormous benefit to companies to have readily available educated employees. Moreover, many items of spending, such as food aid, primarily go to children. It is a tremendous benefit to the business world to have a next-generation workforce that doesn't suffer from the cognitive issues that can result from malnutrition.

The expenditures that are the hardest to justify are the ones that are generationally redistributive, like Social Security and Medicare. On the other hand, these require the least justification--they are benefits mostly paid for by separately-marked taxes, that every taxpayer can benefit from personally.

And I'm not even going to get started on how tremendously economically valuable agencies like the EPA are.

So before you talk about what our taxes are spent on, try to cultivate some perspective about what exactly enables the incredible wealth we have in our society. As I said, my parents are from a country with far less government than we have. It's hellish. You don't want to live like that, trust me.