Delta Charlie on Nostr: Taxes (what is actually collected) currently go to paying interest on already ...

Taxes (what is actually collected) currently go to paying interest on already borrowed currency, or the military industrial complex.

Roads are built by borrowing more currency through a bond issue, letting government contractors bid to get the privilege of overcharging the government to build the road, then doing it as cheaply as possible, to repeat the cycle in a few more years after the road is damaged.