[Tangurena]

I pay taxes that go to pay for the roadways and highways near you. You don't pay the actual costs of building and maintaining those roads as the tax burdens get spread all around. Some of my taxes have also gone to overthrow dictators, prop up existing dictators (like Saudi Arabia) or to put dictators into power (such as the Shah) so that we could have cheap oil. Politicians have repeatedly claimed that oil revenues from Iraq would pay for the war and reconstruction of Iraq.