Part of living in a civilized society is that we band together to support activities that we agree are necessary, even if we don't personally benefit from them.

Part of living in a civilized society is that we band together to support activities that we agree are necessary, even if we don't personally benefit from them. My taxes go to pay for many things that I don't benefit from, or even disagree with. However, the "price" of living in society is that that you don't sweat the small stuff because in the end it averages out enough that everyone sees sufficient benefit for it to be worth it. What you can't justifiably do, however, is complain about the specific instances in which you pay for a benefit for someone else without acknowledging all the other ways in which things flow in the other direction. My favorite example is road costs. Suppose I don't drive a car. Why should I pay for road infrastructure? Because I realize that even if I don't personally drive a car, I benefit from a society in which people and property can be efficiently transported without having to pay the owner of each and every road a toll. What about schools? Should people without children not have to pay taxes that go toward schools, because they don't "benefit"? They should, because everyone should realize that even if they don't have children, a modern society needs educated citizens to persist. The same reason applies to supporting those that do the work of raising the citizens of tomorrow. (Which you, if you have no children, might mistake for leisure rather than a job.) Presumably you, when you're in your 80s and 90s, would like there to exist people of working age that can take care of you?