[hutzlibu]

"I just realized that taxes are actually a form of forced altruism. The money goes towards good things"

Like war (on drugs, iraq, afghanistan), NSA, CIA, etc? And you have also not much choice, if you don't support the spending on the current education system for example.

Thats why it is not a donation. So in my Utopian future taxes would be indeed voluntarily and directly bound - so if there is no money for certain things, then apparently nobody wants them. I suppose most people favor education and streets over sustaining a global invading force, but I might be wrong. Anyway, still a long way to go for this ...