Let's also bear in mind that you can benefit from something without "using" it. I once talked to a guy who was furious that his property taxes funded public sc

Let's also bear in mind that you can benefit from something without "using" it. I once talked to a guy who was furious that his property taxes funded public schools b/c he didn't have kids. But ... I think we'd all be worse off if there were no public schools and there was an illiterate underclass. I don't have a car and rarely drive on highways, but I have no idea where my groceries would come from if public roads were not present. I don't expect to collect social security, but I pay into it with the knowledge that all my elderly family members collect it. On the other hand, by paying our taxes, we Americans maintain thousands of nuclear weapons, and the largest and most elaborate military on the planet. So ... not all of what we pay for is "good".