[Clubber]

>But it shouldn't be the tax payer who picks up the tab.

Rebuilding is exactly what paying taxes are for. We've been giving too much of it to corporate interests, why not give some to the citizens? What are we, nodes of the Matrix, supplying the machine with labor for nothing but an illusion of a decent life?

[dixie_land]

Maybe we shouldn't be supplying the machine (paying taxes) at all

[Clubber]

I wouldn't mind a smaller, more manageable (and auditable) machine.