The government accounts for much of our economic activity. If it didn't spend, there wouldn't be much to take back.

@WilyRickWiles Ricky, discussing GOVERNMENT MONEY with you is a waste of finger time!!!!!!!!!!!!
You Will never get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You have proof of my indebtedness? Government debt means the employees/shareholders of USA Corp. I don't owe anyone shit! Anyone who believes different is a thief or at least complicit to fraud.

@cRaZyTMG, I love it when I speak of the obvious and someone says "prove it." What percent of your income are the taxes you pay bucko? Want to bet that they are going up??? Hey, it ain't rocket science, but you are clueless that you are even paying it. Hilarious.

@TimTuolomne I do not pay taxes. I do have money stolen from me using the threat of violence on a regular basis (that the thieves call taxes). If you are ok with that, then the clueless label does apply - just not to me. Wake Up!

@cRaZyTMG, Wake up eh. And how would I know that genius? I hope you are retired and living on your rewards of a life of a strong work ethic, but from your easy and baseless condemnation, I doubt it. You either did pay it, or you are a drain on society, and clearly don't care if others taxes go up. Good for you.

@TimTuolomne I take zero dollars of government money. When did you cash your last government check? I'm not a drain on society but I am a threat (at least an annoyance) to those that are.

@cRaZyTMG, ya know, I have no idea what you are arguing, but it has long since ceased to be about the cost of debt to the taxpayers. I have no idea why you are an exception, nor do I care, because it doesn't matter. Exceptions never disprove the rule. I only engage in discussions in which I might learn something. I shall learn nothing from you.

@TimTuolomne Well didn't you just prove my point... Here's an "authoritative" definition of "exceptions prove the rule" which has been law since at least the 15h century

It's a legal maxim, established in English law in the early 17th century. Written, as law was in those days, in Latin: Exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis and is interpreted to mean ‘exception confirms the rule in the cases not excepted’ It has (slightly modified) examples in print going back to at least 1617:
Collins: Indefinites are equivalent to universalls especially where one exception being made, it is plain that all others are thereby cut off, according to the rule Exceptio figit regulam in non exceptis. While not the earliest citation, this, from Giovanni Torriano's Piazza universale di proverbi italiani, or A Common Place of Italian Proverbs, 1666, expresses the idea clearly: "The exception gives Authority to the Rule."

from [phrases.org.uk]