Do you actually believe that "your taxes are working for you"?

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Sometimes.  The terrible section of I-44 that I commute 100 miles on on daily is being resurfaced at long last.  FINALLY!

The taxes wasted on paying interest on the national debt, not such a good deal.  Especially as the Fed has kept interest rates artificially low (to keep the interest payments low, if you can call half a trillion dollars "low.") which resulted in the crash in the value of the dollar, which is the primary reason for $4 per gallon gasoline.