Why not? It's accumulated benefits of millennia. Consider only the capital accumulated by prior taxpayers. Or consider all the science and technology that was d

Why not? It's accumulated benefits of millennia. Consider only the capital accumulated by prior taxpayers. Or consider all the science and technology that was developed - how much would it cost to rediscover Newton, Galileo, the space program, the Manhattan Project, written language, plumbing, all of mathematics, information theory, transistors, the wheel ...? You can't afford it.