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If you take this to its logical conclusion then nobody pays taxes and then society falls apart. Clearly, that money does something.

The logical conclusion of this line of thinking is that you must then believe there to be a moral obligation to always pay service people in cash and avoid paying taxes at every possible opportunity.

Do I understand your position correctly?

Don’t put your words in their mouth.

Giving government money doesn’t really change the way government operates. The government has the budget for the year and that’s the spending for the year. If government needs something done, an item gets budgeted, money is borrowed, and paid out to get stuff done. Giving money to the government only offsets the debt; nothing else changes from that besides the number in the spreadsheet.

Plus they'll have increased the deficit by $7B by the time the ink dries on the tax payment check.