[ulfw]

Bullshit. They tax anything and everything in Germany. There's taxes on insurance, taxes on tobacco, taxes on fuel...

As a random example here is a tax for sparkling wines. No, not import custom fees. A tax.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schaumweinsteuer

[pimlottc]

I don't speak German but the tax you linked appears a tax that is /collected/ on a certain item (sparkling wine). The GP was talking about a tax whose /revenues are spent/ on a specific thing (transit).

[Mesopropithecus]

I assume the previous poster meant that you can't tie specific taxes to specific spending buckets in Germany.

[germanier]

But you can (and there are many), it's just called "Beitrag" instead of "Steuer" with the only difference being exactly the binding to a purpose.