Some day in the future some poor schmuck is going to ask the people who are living through this (rhetorically, of course), "was all of this worth it?" That will happen after the federal debt tower of babel collapses.
“The feds don’t pay anything.”
Yes you are correct, and not only is our money being taken from us, but much of it is being wasted subsidizing ‘special’ subgroups within our society.
Those with money are being weakened. Those receiving the money are also weakened by addiction to handouts.