What part of taxes isnt? By your standards, the whole world for all history is socialist! I really do not understand when people get a direct tax cut based on surplus income to the government people freak out. You are fine with it if the people dont get a percentage of the windfall from mineral wealth, you only get freaked out when the people do?
Trust me, there are plenty of government bean counters that would love to do away with that check. Why then we in alaska could count tree toed frogs, if we could find thawed ones that is.