Well..I think people are upset about the level of corruption. I personally get irked when a charity asks me to give time or money to their cause and then have them show up in a Bentley wearing an Armani suit. They're at that level..now add in the fact they're additionally taking money via the back-door for favours. I just don't see that as nice things. Nice things is healthcare for the poor. Lowered child mortality rates..those kinds of things.
yea sure there are crooks. And fwiw unfortunately so are many (or maybe most) politicians. Most are just corporate pawnsimo.
Sure health care or for that matter not having any poor people and/or unfortunate kids is nice. Heart breaking nice to be honest.
But nice is also having well maintained and nice pleasant places to go and see and do ......as we go about our daily routines and free time. We cant let everything crumble. There will always be something more needy to spend money on but other stuff has its importance and place too. That imo is not mean nor suggesting not to care. Everytime tax dollars repaves roads, improves a park, a shoreline or part of a countryside, restores a structure, an airport, an arena etc,etc or just have something nice.. we can always say that money could be used where it may be needed more as that stuff may not been in dire need . But then do we wait till things are in such decay? Do we let our infrastructure crumble? No longer have nice places to go , see and do? Do we go without some things all together? how pleasant would most anything really be with that approach? Its not imo mean nor is it considered not caring if we keep , maintain and build things while the money could be spent on more needy situations. It sounds mean but it would be a pretty ugly scenario and honestly in my neck of the woods its getting that way. Less and less is pleasant and nice because there is always something more needy of the money.
But with that line of thinking I would ask and I mean this not to judge nor to get personal in any negative way but just make an honest point/question for sake of discussion. I don't know if you own a home. But if you do or wherever you might live. Do you have things around and/or in your home that are not at all necessary but simply there for the sake of having them? Nice things to see/do and be around? Perhaps a pool or yard fixtures and furniture, perhaps certain electronics in your home, pieces of furniture, perhaps several items just for the sake of having and making a nice environment in and/or around your home? I mean things that are not at all necessary yet cost a good amount of money. If so then couldn't one then (with the applied logic) technically say....."there are so many things and people that money could truly help"? yet you (we all) at different relative levels chose to surround ourselves with things which we could do for a lot less money, are not really necessary and/or things we could easily even do without. Imo its the same with our tax dollars. That's our money and so its not so wrong imo to see it spent on things just for the sake of making things nice in and around the local environments we live our daily lives and spend our free time in even though there are more needy things for that money. If that makes us mean and non caring than imo so should we be labeled the same when we spend unnecessary money in/around our homes that could easily be more useful elsewhere.