As an American tax payer, I would be willing to pay taxes as long as I could see/or be told what exactly my money is being spent on. I get a tax refund yearly due to the amount I make, but the money that the government does keep is for social security tax, which is money that I will never see again based on the way social security is set up. There are not enough people putting money into the system for it to continue being successful for a long time. The government does not allow for citizens of the country to know exactly what their tax dollars are spent on. I believe that if we knew exactly what bills and wars our money was financing, then we would be more willing to increase the amount of our money goes directly from our paychecks and into taxes.