[Socratoad]

Zoot, you actually can do almost anything you want, if you are willing to pay the price. Depending on your sincerely held ethics, I would say go for it. But surely you cannot expect any organized society to be able to function at all if everyone can decide where every cent of their contribution goes. That is why "true" democracy has never worked. What we supposedly have is representative democracy, which could actually work if humans were to participate rather than be distracted by bread and circuses.