I guess I should point out that your Freudian slip is showing.

I may not like your insecure, insincere, uneducated, inane and irrelevent opinion, ventured to compensate for feelings of intellectual inferiority, but I'll fight to the death for your right to express it.

In short, I thought you were capable of laying out better bait than that...I'm kinda disappointed.

Since you are bringing him up in the first place, it would appear that he's even better known than I thought he was...

Meh...They're only human so it stands to reason there would be something twisted about them.

Quite correct. If all income tax paid was interest on the national debt, there would be nothing left for bribes, bombs, drones & brutal cops to keep the disgruntled slaves in line. Good thing we can always borrow more money and make the slaves pay or we'd never get anything done. The infrastructure of society would wind up rotting and failing as ALL the tax money meant for it and other unimportant things like food, clothing, shelter & medical care for the slaves would be have to be reallocated for the "good stuff."

It's so good to see that at least someone on here understands economics and the complexities of good governance. I hope these malcontents listen to you, or they might stop giving their government what it needs, thus causing it to cease to function, and where would they be then eh?

There would be chaos in the streets with no police to keep them in line, no neat bombs for killing brown people, no drones (which saves a lot of money on a judicial system that might not rule in our favour), and no money for the bonuses, yachts, palaces & other incentives so desperately needed by the selfless financial geniuses who keep the wheels of corporate capitalism well oiled. The slaves would have to rely on their friends, neighbours and countrymen to provide them with the essential needs directly, and we all know that the lazy, greedy, self-serving riff-raff cares about nobody but themselves, so their friends, neighbours and countrymen would probably all starve to death without people like us to dole out their needs as we see fit. Obviously the lazy bums could go to work and support themselves without us to give them jobs, but we know they'll never do that. With no government teat to suck on, I'm sure they'd rather die than work.

What's really needed in this age of austerity, cutbacks and too-small-to-make-a-difference bank bailouts isn't a revolution (obviously), it's a charity that can raise the necessary funds to support the ailing one percent.

As voltaire once said, "Those who believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities." and the slaves seem to believe all sorts of absurd conspiracy theories, like the ones that assert that their government might not be working in their best interest. We have to stamp out such crazy absurdities from the public mind before the ignorant villagers storm the castle with torches.

Yes and no...While it is true that all the taxes are gathered into a consolidated fund for disbursement according to the budget, I think it is much more than coincidence that in a "well-balanced" budget, the income tax collected corresponds closely to the interest payable on the national debt. Too much so for coincidence IMO.

Yes exclusively, it goes to the debt before being spent on anything else.....

Our 'income tax' goes exclusively towards paying the interest on the national debt.

If the country defaults on the national debt, then people should stop paying income tax.