LOL, tempting as it may be to not pay taxes because we don't like where the money is going, most people are too wrapped up in their own little lives to think about it. They think their taxes are going to education and to feed the poor.
Which I think is ridiculous because I just spent A LOT on school supplies for my kids, including backpacks, and all this required stuff like 3 ring binders and filler paper, single subject notebooks, pocket folders, pencils, colored pencils, different colored pens, and when I went to school, the only thing I needed to bring was myself and a "cold lunch" if I didn't like what they were serving for the day or it was field trip day.
In the next town over, they are cutting foreign languages. They've cut music and art in some schools, and I've even heard of school systems with no physical education.
Oh how I wish that we the tax-payers would stand up for ourselves and demand that our children, the future of this nation, was priority one. Bush's no child left behind act isn't cutting it, that just tells you your kids have to go to school a certain number of days or they will not pass.
If that was the case when I was a kid, I would have been in kindergarten for 7 years, because I was sick all the time, one year I missed over 60 days of school, but I did my make-up work and got A's and B's, but that wouldn't fly today.
Put the people first, that's what I say.