Property taxes pay for schools, police, county/town government services, etc.
State income taxes (in most states) pay for the legal courts, the parks, roads, and plowing, and a state unemployment + welfare system.
Federal taxes mostly go towards the military and some other civil services like environment and highways. Social Security + Medicare are welfare payments made to old people who have worked and aged to around the age of 65.
So, I'm not really sure what I'm benefiting from here. I guess maybe another foreign country would invade the US and potentially kill me if we didn't have a military. But I'm not feeling like any of these services personally help me at all.
Sales tax goes into a slush fund at the state level that is just spent on anything random. I don't think it's mandated to be used for something specific to online consumer protections?
