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29. Not your decision, though.

Congress collects taxes. At that point it's their money to do with as they want, in some sense. They spend it on various things.

As opposed to your getting a bill in which it's spelled out that a certain amount of the $ you contribute will be spent on military spending, so you know that of the $4000 in federal income tax you contribute per year $2,050 goes to the DOD. And if there were some way of reducing that amount on your part, you'd be sure that $2,050 less would go to the DOD.

(Although the thinking is cute. It's like the Sisters' in that you view yourself ultimately as having some responsibility or potential responsibility for something not under your direct control--but one step even further removed from their perceived responsibility because there's somebody between you and the DOD who actually is making the decision.)

Don't have to agree with the Sisters' to be able to understand their reasoning and even be vaguely sympathetic to it.