I never understood anti-tax Christians, for the sole reason that all of their problems are contradicted succinctly in the Bible (Matthew 22:15-22).
Also, the thought that money is "yours" is inherently wrong too. We all made a compact (in the form of a constitution) to allow the government to create money. Money belongs to the government, and it always will, because they are the ones that make it.
Is it wrong to take from the rich, to give to the poor? Why don't you ever ask, is it wrong to take from the poor, to give to the rich? What has happened in America over the last twenty years is the biggest redistribution of wealth in the history of the Western world. The more the richest Americans get the most disproportionate tax relief, the more the rest of the citizens must shoulder the burden.
In the end, every tax is a form of wealth redistribution. A $700 billion dollar payment to the financial sector is the same thing. There has to be a consensus in the country, on how those taxes are used (ie distributed). I hope that in the next few years to come, that consensus will be built on the idea that we are all connected, and our actions have profound impact on other peoples.
If we are not asked to pay money back to the country, we will not have a military; we will not have an infrastructure; we will not have hospitals or drug research, things that get so much help from the government. It's time for Americans to wake up and smell the coffee, and realize that if they want to sustain their way of life, they are responsible for it as well. It is greed that says, we want bridges, roads, hospitals, schools, fire departments, police departments, military, and everything else, but we don't want to pay for it.
Walter Ramsey