"Taxation is taking from one person and giving to another.  Taxation is theft."   This is the sad view of a self-professed libertarian in reaction to yesterday's blog entry.  I don't know why libertarians and right wingers always look at taxes as the government taking "my money" and giving it away to people who don't deserve it.  In case you have not broken the code, that means blacks, Hispanics, immigrants, drug addicts, gays, uneducated people who don't want to work and anybody else they feel are below them.  Actually, the government takes your money and spends it on such things as the Federal Aviation Administration air control system that keeps you safe when flying, the Center for Disease Control that monitors dangers to national health, the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard which protect our country, the FBI which fights crime throughout the nation, the Federal Drug Administration which attempts to make drugs safe for you when the pharmaceutical industry is not using politicians to strangle it, Social Security which most seniors live on.   It also spends it on dumb things like invading other countries but that’s another topic.  What libertarians and right wingers refuse to admit is that government can and does, under certain circumstances, serve some useful purposes.  But when your reason is blinded by bigotry you can't see that.