Every day, the government wastes your money. Even as you sleep, eat, shower, brush your teeth, work, or shoot pool on the weekends, your money is being thrown away under false pretenses, without your knowledge. Social Security is a financial drain on you; the government takes your money, uses it for the benefit of others, and leaves you high and dry. The "others" are mainly old people and students.
The old people get a nice bulk of your money. Your paycheck pays for their medicine, for their hospitalization, for their food, for their aids, and in many cases, even for their places of residence. But it is your paycheck that is paying for this, not theirs; and of course, you have no knowledge of this going on. By the time you realize what has been happening, you will have no money for yourself or your retirement, and there will be no such thing as Social Security anymore; the current administration will simply blame the precious regime, and consider themselves cleansed of any underlying responsibility.
Old people are only part of the problem. There is also the issue of public school students. They are provided with all sorts of free goodies for which you have to pay. For example, most high school students get free Metro Cards, in order to facilitate better, cheaper, and more easily accessible education. However, the MTA is part of a large unnamed subdiary of the government, and thus, it costs them nothing to provide free transportation. Yet, they make you pay for it out of your own paycheck, with no regard to the fact that you get nothing out of this deal. Moreover, you are not explicitly told that you are paying for this.
Another issue is the state-sponsored school lunches. Hundreds of thousands of students across the nation receive free or reduced-price lunches. In order to compensate, the state adds more to the taxes which you are already paying. However, the quality of the actual lunch is sub-par.
