I also have never understood why the govt takes productive peoples money... when they can just drop the income tax and print more. There is probably far more money created by the Fed than is raised by income taxes. Why are we not keeping and eye on M3 if we are trying to curb inflation? Income taxes is just away for the cronies to create worker drones and prevent competition. Its exceedingly abusive to our liberty and equality.
The progressives like to mock ordinary people who object to this kind of wasteful spending. I'm sure the elites in these countries who pocket most of this money greatly appreciate it. Obviously, little to none filters down to the ordinary people. Foreign aid has been described as taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries. Pretty accurate. The next time you hear some democorat wailing that we have cut spending to the bone, recall this list.