[CGMthrowaway]

You are also simplifying. You didn't pay for anything. You were taxed, and representatives selected in accordance with a social contract between government and the people (the Constitution), apportioned and spent (or didn't spend) the money.

[huslage]

That explicitly has not happened in this instance. Don't tell me how democracy works.

[CGMthrowaway]

Which part? And I wasn't describing democracy