WHO IS THE SUBJECT? 政府には or 私たちから


> 政府には、私たちから取る税金の使い方をもっとしっかり_____
>
>   * 1 考えられます
>   * 2 考えてあげたいです
>   * 3 考えてもらいたいです
>   * 4 考えてくれます
>

The main question I have is WHO IS THE SUBJECT? I thought that 私たち is the
subject because it says から = FROM. Hence I chose option 2, BUT IT WAS WRONG.
The correct answer is 3. So I ask again WHY is 政府 the subject? It has a に in
it, meaning towards.




The subject of the main clause is neither 私たち nor 政府, but "implicit I"
(singular). The subject of a "-tai" sentence is normally "I", and it is
normally omitted.

  * この映画を見たいです。  
**I** want to watch the movie.  
(私は is almost always omitted)

  * この映画を見てもらいたいです。  
**I** want [someone] to watch the movie.

  * 彼に(は)この映画を見てもらいたいです。  
**I** want him to watch the movie.

  * 政府に(は)Xをもっと考えてもらいたいです。  
**I** want the government to think more about X.

  * 政府に(は)私たちからとる税金の使い方をもっと考えてもらいたいです。  
**I** want the government to think more about how they spend the tax they take
from us.

In all the five examples above, the implicit **subject** is "I". If you're
already confused by the second or the third sentence above, please reread your
textbook and review how to use もらう and に together. Also note that the
**topic** of the original sentence is 政府 (because it's explicitly marked with
は), but topic and subject are different concepts in Japanese.

税金の使い方を考えてあげたいです means "I want to think how to spend taxes _(for someone's
sake / on behalf of someone)_ ". It's not an ungrammatical sentence, but only
a very arrogant person who believes he is greater than the government itself
would say something like this.

