> 20% of your taxes goes to funding roads This is just nonsense. It's something like $600 per capita [1] on tax revenue of $23,000 or so per capita [2], for 2

> 20% of your taxes goes to funding roads This is just nonsense. It's something like $600 per capita [1] on tax revenue of $23,000 or so per capita [2], for 2.6%. [1] https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiatives/state-and-local-finance-initiative/state-and-local-backgrounders/highway-and-road-expenditures https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiative... [2] https://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/per_capita https://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/per_capita