Please tell me that you weren't educated in the United States. I can't understand how else someone could misunderstand such a fundamental concept of our election process.
Ah, yes, because somehow wasting all that money on an election campaign is okay so long as it is voluntary taxation. Then I remember that this is the same group of intellectuals that voted up "Star Trek-like computer with voice interface" (a 15 line mashup that is neither a computer, nor Star Trek-like) to the top of HN. God bless America.
Do you actually think this is how taxes work?
Also the same group that created Y Combinator, Hacker News, and the Internet. If you don't like it, you can see yourself out.