Reply #33: every cent collected in income taxes is used to pay interest to the Fed for printing our $

[librechik]

If the US printed its own money, we could spend our taxes on other things like health care and the environment.

although Fed sources claim otherwise, there's a great rundown of how this happens in the documentary film America: Freedom to Fascism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America:_Freedom_to_Fascism