With President Joe Biden's White House screaming for more of America's money on Monday, the American taxpayer is feeling like the financially frugal spouse balancing the checkbook after their partner just went on an unhinged shopping spree and maxed out the credit card — and we're all asking when will the spending stop. Since the Russians invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the US has directed at least $75 billion in aid to the Ukrainians, with the overwhelming majority of it going directly to military assistance, either as logistical or equipment support. 

The recent request by the administration for more money for Ukraine is just exacerbating an already hot topic with the American people, with concerns growing that the money we send to Ukraine is being used for other purposes not associated with defense. RedState covered this back in September when a "60 Minutes" report showed some damning information regarding how our funding is being spent. 

As it turns out, our money is also going to farmers, purchasing seeds and fertilizer: 

American taxpayers are financing more than just weapons. We discovered the U.S. government's buying seeds and fertilizer for Ukrainian farmers… and covering the salaries of Ukraine's first responders – all 57,000 of them.

We're also subsidizing Ukraine's businesses: 

Russia's invasion shrank Ukraine's economy by about a third. We were surprised to find that to keep it afloat the U.S. government is subsidizing small businesses…

…like Tatiana Abramova's knitwear company.

According to 60 Minutes, USAID has helped Abramova's knitting business find customers overseas. The reason we're paying for her business? According to Abramova, the Ukrainian economy is the backbone of the war.

A general feeling of "war fatigue" is mounting at home. According to a YouGov poll taken in November, the Ukraine war and the Israel/Hamas war prompt a unique difference of opinion among Americans, depending on which side of the political and ideological aisle one is on. On one side, the American right is feeling less and less supportive of our assistance efforts to support the Ukrainian effort in their war with Russia while, for the most part, supportive of continuing military funding for Israel in their fight against Hamas. However, the same does not hold for the left side of the aisle. The American left continues to fully support our involvement in propping up Ukraine. Yet, while the same is partially true with Israel, a very sizable faction of the left flat-out refuses to support Israel in their war effort.

The war that Israel is waging against Hamas isn't a proxy war for the U.S., per se. However, U.S. national security interests are served by ensuring that Israel eliminates the threat that Hamas poses to not just themselves but the world in general. Hamas is not unlike the Taliban or Al Queda in the sense that they would love to strike other places besides Israel, like the US. And considering the conditions at our southern border, it is likely that we could see Hamas fighters and or sympathizers come to America to attack us here at home. This makes House Speaker Johnson's (R-LA) intention to include a markup on the aid package to Ukraine for American border funding all the more necessary. 

In a recent warning to American law enforcement, the San Diego Field Office of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Department's Intelligence Division has issued a chilling but not surprising advisement for law enforcement agencies along the southern border to expect terrorist groups like Hamas to enter the United States through the open southern border.  

In the advisory, which is marked "Law Enforcement Sensitive," the agency says that people in the U.S. who are sympathetic to Hamas and are attempting to join the group in the area of the war may attempt to leave through the southern border. In addition to this, they further warn that foreign fighters associated or sympathetic with Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad will most likely attempt to conceal their travel or transit to the United States by coming through the open southern borders. 

Another point that RedState's Brandon Morse made is that if America can fund not just one but two foreign conflicts, we, as a nation, are being taxed way too much. While additional military aid for Israel has not been approved in Congress as yet, we are spending significant amounts of money on Ukraine's war effort and to prop up its economy and workforce. 

And yet, despite all the problems within our own borders where our money could be utilized to great effects, such as the construction of a border wall, the deportation of illegals from our country, infusing our police forces with more funding, or helping clean up and restore places that recently saw train wrecks or bizarre wildfires...we're sending our cash to fight wars, none of which we need to be involved in, and one whom it's hardly necessary.

As far as I'm concerned, we're being taxed way too much. If our government has the cash to throw at two countries for their wars, then they're taking too much from us. Not only does our tax rate need to be reduced significantly, but we need to defund the IRS dramatically or abolish it altogether since it's pretty clear that it acts as an avenue for our government to act in a fiscally irresponsible manner. 

It is both reckless and nonsensical to spend the amount of money we have since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the same could be argued as to additional funding for Israel. However, if you compare the $75 billion sent to Ukraine in roughly two years to the $130 billion we have sent Israel in roughly 75 years, the ire over spending should be directed primarily at the Ukraine funding. America sends approximately $3-$5 billion a year to Israel as part of America's security commitment to Israel and the region in general. However, when the Biden White House and some war-mongering members of Congress call for $14 billion on top of the average annual money spent on Israel's security, the support starts to fade. Furthermore, the more money we throw at Israel, the more we technically have the standing to further influence Israel's actions and tactics against Hamas. So, it may make more sense to hold the funding back and just let them fight how they see fit.  

Again, as Brandon Morse pointed out, our domestic issues here at home could have used all that money to alleviate so much. But our elected officials are hell-bent on spending our money and printing more money than we have just to bankroll a foreign war and more. What do the flight crews on commercial airlines say when they talk about the oxygen masks? They say to put the mask on yourself first before helping others. They say that because to help others, you have to be healthy and able to take care of yourself first. 

Personally, I am done with paying for other people to fight their wars, especially when it comes to Ukraine. I have long been supportive of the cessation of our spending to boost Ukraine in its fight against the Russians. I firmly believe that supporting that fight is not within our nation's national security interests. And, while I fully support Israel in its fight against a savage and dastardly enemy, I am reluctant to spend more money than we already give to them. Let's start to spend that money here at home and fix the problems that are out of control, like immigration and crime. Looking at our growing problems, it is clear that we need to prioritize our spending, and Ukraine should not be a priority.