whiff? The point about taxes has nothing to do with whining. It was there to illustrate not that you should pay more, but rather, that you HAVEN'T paid more. Just because you're paying for college (probably at a subsidized cost), doesn't mean you have paid the full cost of education. First of all, the fact that it is subsidized means that the somebody, probably the government, has already paid a significant portion of your bill for you. Second of all, I was talking about elementary to high school education which is more or less mandatory in America, of which you definitely have not paid the full cost of, and the community service is targeted at.
Say you work 40 hours a week. I'm assuming you're not working at like google or something 40 hours a week, so it wouldn't be a far stretch to say that most of that is going towards your own living costs unless your parents are paying for everything else.
If you are going to a state school, that's already the government helping you out. If you are going to a private school and not on grants or scholarship, you're probably taking out a student loan, which the government has also helped you out with. However, even if you work 40 hours a week, just to pay for college, you're looking at years, of debt before you pay off your loan. You haven't even paid for college, and you're saying you've paid your way out of all your schooling before college? Give me a break. I don't care how little time you think you have for community service, because clearly you are not at the margin where you must give up something necessary in order to do it. At that point, people just suck up the costs, and pay what they have to pay. Its because of people's refusal to pay the full cost of anything that we have to have government in the first place.
