Where Your Tax Dollar Goes

Happy Tax Day. I prefer to think about where I'd like my tax dollars to go -- to the military's special forces, to the National Park rangers explaining the wonders of Ellis Island, Lexington and Concord, and Yosemite Valley, to funding my own grandparents' Medicare and Social Security payments. For a corrective, Cal Thomas has a column enumerating some of the federal expenditures that may make you feel more as if your tax dollars are being wasted, including "a commercial driving school for companies that make large profits" and research in "Pickle Science and Technology," which is "dedicated to increasing product value by improving production and quality of pickled vegetables."