How many people do you employ, Wanda Ehmann?  How many have you EVER employed?  Are you aware of the rate of UNemployment and below-living-level wages being paid to people not even listed as umemployed because they found PT jobs?  You want them to go hungry? Unhoused in winter?  How about this: I will not let my taxes go to pay the FAA for YOUR air safety!  No more for your flights, just mine!  Ditto with the FDA -- I want me and mine protected in all ways in food and drug safety, and you can cover all your family!  OK? See, we pool our money in the US, then pay it out all over the place for the good of us all, even the drug addicts! Our taxes are also for the aging, the children, and yes, even every day workers, we ALL benefit. Addicts need treatment, not long term jail sentences. Burglaries, petty theft are way up, due to the drug addicts seeking a way to pay for the drugs, I believe. But is that due to JUST addiction, or long term unemployment leading to hopelessness, then to drugs?