That’s pretty much how it works. I don’t get it, but that’s what happens.
Pols always say the taxes are for roads and bridges, but they spend the money on other things. Somehow the roads and bridges continue to deteriorate so that pols can keep telling voters they need to pay more to fix them. What a clever racket.
The roads around here are pitiful, and yet the city and county are always proposing new parks and attractions that supposedly draw young professionals to the area. So-called economic development is a scam that enables pols and their buddies to use taxpayer money for their own projects. It’s really just Soviet 5-year planning with a new name.
Interesting also that whenever you discuss taxes with a sheeperal, they act like that’s all that our tax money gets spent on as well - roads, cops, fire fighters...
never on transfer programs, which are over half of the feral budget.