Churchill's jurisdiction didn't extend over the Atlantic, so here in America we do have a road tax, more or less. The revenue from the federal gas tax is supposed to go into the highway trust fund to be used to build and maintain highways.

However, the trust fund only pays for a fraction of the total cost of highways, and that fraction is decreasing every year. Much of the money to pay for roads come from genreal tax revenues, through incom. sales and property taxes and other taxes. So it is accurate to say that cyclists pay taxes to support the roads that they ride on, even if they don't pay into the highway trust fund.