

Admittedly you have a point since parents are individuals in most of the US where I am from.
That hasn’t been true historically, nor does it need to continue just because we have done it that way for a few generations. Historically, parents are an entire community of adults raising the children as a group, which does map onto what a government is supposed to be fairly accurately.






Tell me you know nothing about economics without telling me you know nothing about economics.
Taxes are an anti-inflationary measure that are implemented at the end of the federal governmental fiscal year. Where they get implemented is where politics comes in, but taxes are just money that is collected and deleted. We literally used to burn the collected currency, but since most of our currency these days is digital, we just zero out a line in the federal government’s accounting ledger.
Taxes never have, never will, and never can pay for anything when talking about a sovereign currency. That’s a conservative zero sum lie that people that don’t understand economics fall for.