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Here is a number worth sitting with. Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire, worth around $1.1 trillion after SpaceX went public on June 12.Cue the familiar outrage. How much should a man like this be taxed? Is he paying his fair share? Why does anyone get to be that rich?It is a fair question to ask once. The trouble is that for some people, it is the only question they ever ask.So let us ask a different one. Where does your money go after Washington takes it?The honest answer is sobering. The national debt now sits above $39 trillion. It grew by more than $2 trillion last year alone. The deficit for this fiscal year was already near $1 trillion by the end of April.Interest on that debt now eats up roughly one of every seven dollars the government spends.And Musk, for all the noise, wrote the single largest individual tax check in American history, more than $11 billion in 2021. The left can argue about wealth versus income, and that debate is real, but the man is plainly not dodging the bill.Congress is the opposite story. It does not earn the money it spends. It takes yours, borrows more, then hands the tab to your kids.The Anti-Federalist writer Brutus warned about exactly this. He said an open-ended power to tax and to borrow would let government spend with no real limit and pass the debt down to the next generation.That is the real scandal. Not one man building rockets and paying record taxes, but a town that spends without restraint and answers to no one.The meme says it plainly. Stop asking how much a builder should be taxed. Start asking why the people spending your money waste so much of it.