I don't understand your point. If it was "an itemized line in our electric bill", you'd presumably still pay for it? You also pay lot more than $40 a month to f

I don't understand your point. If it was "an itemized line in our electric bill", you'd presumably still pay for it? You also pay lot more than $40 a month to finance the infrastructure surrounding you, even though that is not were most of the money goes to (mostly social / medical / military, not infra).