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Do those other things include Farm Bill, foreign wars, Gitmo, interntional aid to all the various regimes that receive it...?



If the Farm Bill supported welfare, then yes. The others... not so much.

But those things aren't direct effects of taxes, they're the direct result of legislative and executive action that can be, in part, enabled by taxes. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.




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