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 I live on a dirt road well outside of town and wouldn’t care to have it lit at all. I’ve never had city water or sewer. The only service I’ve ever used is roads. I’d be happy to pay toll’s for my usage of roads, typically under 10,000 miles a year, instead of taxes but that isn’t an option so I’ll continue to consider it all immoral *and* use the roads while I my money is taken in sales, income and property taxes for everything else the government does. Taxes that I would have to pay anyway even if I did have the option of just using toll roads and paying as I went.

I don’t count school because attendance was compulsory and other than the last semester of my senior year I was to young to sign a contract on my own anyway. That last semester was probably 5kish for me. I  paid that back and then some 15 years ago.