[Hugh R]

I didn't see flood control tax.

We also pay special assessments for mosquito control, street lighting, sewer bonds, water bonds, highway, high speed rail, and a bunch of others.

If you think about it, you pay the employer side of SS tax on every single person involved in making/producing everything that you buy as the end user. For a six pack of beer, that is the farming, seed, fertilizer, water, tractor, fuel, the mining of the bauxite to make the aluminum can,everything.