In the case of New York it's a foreign country, so I could care less. But if the government sets up from what I understand is a monopoly and then uses that mono

In the case of New York it's a foreign country, so I could care less. But if the government sets up from what I understand is a monopoly and then uses that monopoly to sell to another country, of course it should be used to subsidize that same service that the citizens utilize. Otherwise the government is just capturing part of the economy and using it for whatever purposes they desire. Which is in fact, the definition of a tax.