I feel that drive too, of paying for things that benefit me even when I'm not properly excluded from their use otherwise.
Let me give you an example.
California.
I was given a pretty terrible impression of state workers, government employees generally, for a very long time. And I still hear stories about many of them being really lazy, but that I've actually witnessed firsthand, dude, 5.0000 stars. Let me jog my memory and think when no...but that I can talk about...well the police at least, just awesome police. But that's just what I see with my own eyes, of course you have to take into account news. With police, them earning what they earn just doesn't seem that fucking expensive. The public libraries, just amazing, people don't realize the value of a library because they're everywhere in US and in Latin America they're not as good (fewer, farther between, less resources). There's more examples.
So at one point when filling out HR forms I notice the person I'm talking to skipped over two entries filled in by default with 0.00, and I asked what they were. Extra taxes! Do you want to pay extra taxes? Nobody fills them out!
I said yes, definitely, and it was great. I felt good knowing I supported the system that supported me, without exclusion. Like everyone says "the government should do this, I want this from the government, I shouldn't have to pay for this myself, my entitlement is not enough." What about, hey let's give the government what it needs on our end, like actually produce the wealth and be tax-docile instead of making it audit us (and let someone else come up with ideas of how to spend it).
It goes for everything, I pay even once the horse is out of the barn.
Let me give you an example.
California.
I was given a pretty terrible impression of state workers, government employees generally, for a very long time. And I still hear stories about many of them being really lazy, but that I've actually witnessed firsthand, dude, 5.0000 stars. Let me jog my memory and think when no...but that I can talk about...well the police at least, just awesome police. But that's just what I see with my own eyes, of course you have to take into account news. With police, them earning what they earn just doesn't seem that fucking expensive. The public libraries, just amazing, people don't realize the value of a library because they're everywhere in US and in Latin America they're not as good (fewer, farther between, less resources). There's more examples.
So at one point when filling out HR forms I notice the person I'm talking to skipped over two entries filled in by default with 0.00, and I asked what they were. Extra taxes! Do you want to pay extra taxes? Nobody fills them out!
I said yes, definitely, and it was great. I felt good knowing I supported the system that supported me, without exclusion. Like everyone says "the government should do this, I want this from the government, I shouldn't have to pay for this myself, my entitlement is not enough." What about, hey let's give the government what it needs on our end, like actually produce the wealth and be tax-docile instead of making it audit us (and let someone else come up with ideas of how to spend it).
It goes for everything, I pay even once the horse is out of the barn.