Recently, Jose posted:

In reality, we all suck the government teat (ever use a library?) and
the government sucks our teats (1040 anyone?) so the distinction
between one kind of taxpayer expense and another, which may be more
cleverly hidden in the tax code, is rather moot.

One of the primary reasons to have a government is to provide for the
common good. Libraries fall under that category, just as do other items of
our physical infrastructure. Hotels do not fall under that category, nor
do farm subsidies for crops not being grown or bridges to nowhere. Let's
not get confused, here.

Neil