Because two can play this game.
On the one side of the federal government shutdown are the people whose job it is to run that government: the Congress and the White House. Democrats, Republicans, conservatives, liberals -- no one forced any of them to take those jobs. They wanted them. Then ran for them. They got them.
On the other side -- at least in a rational world, which this isn't -- is us. The taxpayers.
Congress still gets paid -- it's in the Constitution
We pay federal income tax with one solitary and bedrock expectation: We are handing our money over so that the federal government will run.
