Jim Audiomisc
pfm Member
Maybe because it is so obvious that taxes do fund state spending.
'Obvious' often turns out to be a synonym for "wrong".
it is (was) obvious that the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around the Earth.
You can use a shovel to dig a hole. But it isn't the shovel that digs it, you do. Nor does it rule out any other uses of shovels, or of other ways to dig a hole.
Correlation != Causation.