> Taxes pay for schools and ongoing infrastructure maintenance, as well as services, like trash collection. > Do you like having drinkable water in your house

> Taxes pay for schools and ongoing infrastructure maintenance, as well as services, like trash collection. > Do you like having drinkable water in your house and not having piles of trash on the sidewalks At least here, taxes don't pay for either of those things. Water is billed by the water agency and trash collection is a private company with their own billing.