Slop.

One time I was helping my parents by meeting with their well guy to pull and replace their well pump and he got into politics for some very dumb reason. He started ranting about how Houston is wasting our tax dollars (everyone involved in this conversation lives outside Houston) that could be spent on the national debt instead. I had to explain to him that Houston doesn't use federal tax dollars, they use money taxed from residents, and not only city but even state services are completely unrelated to federal taxes or the deficit. This man was in his late 40s at the time. Most Americans would need years of re-education to become even marginally functional citizens.