HELP - with these preliminary thoughts on TAXES

I think it IS a revenue problem rather then a spending problem. I think we get what we pay for... and a lot of what we are now paying for is our armed forces including police and an overly large prison system.

I have been around for a while and the beginning of the tax-revolution was not Prop 13 in California but was the reports of great waste in government spending specifically in the Armed Forces where rather regular hammers were bought for hundreds of dollars, etc. This was outrageous.... truly... but reforms put in place were quantitative spending controls rather then quality assurances.

I think the taxes we in the USA pay by any statistical measures is less today then it was in the 1960's.

I think we target spending because it is:

1. easier
2. as individuals we think we need to take care of only ourselves... rather than take care of the greater (GREAT) community.
3. we don't want to help the poor (which often can mean we don't want to help THE "other" - by race or gender, etc)
4. the future will take care of itself... or scientists (who we don't trust?) will take care of the future and in any case I won't be there to suffer and/or I don't have children/family who will suffer... or I just don't care
5. other?

And so on and so on...

THIS is just preliminary. I REALLY do BELIEVE it is, now, more a revenue problem then a spending problem and I wonder if my "facts" are right and are the reasons reasonable/true. The reasons DO have a certain rationality. So do opposite reasons which would suggest doing things differently. FOR INSTANCE -- more revenue that is spent on infrastructures which fixes/upgrades/makes-efficient our transportation systems while also creating jobs to do those fixes which then brings in more revenue from working people. 

And so on and so on.....