[mtnops]

Direct benefit? Maybe not, if you don't have kids that participate in 4H, have a home garden, raise bees, or work directly in rural employment. Indirectly, we're talking about supporting agriculture and farming which everyone benefits from.

[renewiltord]

Pick an arbitrary person and an arbitrary thing and I will find a tenuous chain where the person benefits from the thing. I could probably justify a 90% marginal tax over $100k for you using this if you can give me your zip code.

Queries will cost $1 with quadratic increase.

[Fomite]

Agreed - I'm rather fond of Extension programs. It's more a note that rural Colorado receives a great deal of benefit from Denver taxpayers, and that somehow never gets a hand wringing article about out of touch ranchers.