Now, this is what I call a good discussion! I agree that the adventure pass is a regressive form of taxation, and paradoxically agree that it is a small price to pay. War costs and the timber giveaway certainly do not help our government to provide for "domestic needs."
Ultimately, however, the government really is the people with whose consent or toleration it governs. That's another way of saying that it is, after all, all of our faults.