Well there are other things the taxes are used for too, like paid for educations right up to and including university (college and university only require a token fee and in universities you have to buy your own books, but that's still not that much compared to paying all the tuition).
Furthermore, if you need to visit a doctor, surgury etc. then it's paid over the taxes. If you require medicin then you can get most of it paid if you're chronically ill. My mom gets medicin for over 10000 USD per year, 25+ pills a day and 15 types of medicin or something like that, without that, she would've been dead long ago. And my mom was used to work all the time, and even today with her balance (sense) ruined, arthrightis in legs, hips, back etc. My mom got epelepsy due to problems during birth (and before you slam the hospital staff then I can tell you my mom was born in november 1942). She was awarded disability pension some years before I was born but could still take care of our small home while my dad worked hard to afford it and then we spent all freetime together.
After the school turned on me and my parents I as home-schooled from 3rd grade thanks to my mom taking evening classes to teach me, and every year a school principle confirmed that I was being taught well enough, in fact I could even at a young age speak better english than him, and he needed his assistant to look at how I could use a computer (Amiga 500 at the time) so no problems there, and all the education my mom had ever gotten was as a seamstress. Even now my mom is only slowing realising she can't do as much as she could before, me and my brother still often have to stop her trying to do something we can see can result in her getting injured so she's not a loafer. And I'm still trying to realise my dreams, but it's not easy getting out of this stage in my life, but I'd jump at the chance to get out of it, I hate just sitting wasting time, but of course with my current health then there's not much else I can do.
Frank
