> showed my tax dollars flowing through to that child...would be eye opening I agree. Charity's often use this for marketing. Making clear the direct human imp

> showed my tax dollars flowing through to that child...would be eye opening I agree. Charity's often use this for marketing. Making clear the direct human impact of your donation. Tech companies like Apple do this a lot too. But when a government talks of its successes in statistics...I don't think about my tax spend. I think that it was my (and other people's) vote for that team that did that. And typically not even the team...rather the leadership of the political party. It's like a shift in the marketing approach. We sent 100bn to this country to help out with this. vs. Average Joe paid 10$ of his income last year which helped pay for this and that for these people. One of those people today was Sally... One of those people 15 years ago was Tracy...