Is my tax money already paying for infrastructure, streets, buses, and people who stay at home because that infrastructure is half-assed making it nearly impossible to get a decent job without a car in my city?

I am also already paying for public schools with my property tax even though I never had children. I am paying for roads that heavy trucks break to pieces even though I don't even own a motor vehicle of any kind. Since I am already paying, I don't mind paying a bit more for GOOD transportation and GOOD schools. It is hard to argue that a knowledgeable work force with means to physically get themselves to a job would benefit even the shortest sighted among us.

Taxation WITH representation is sort of the cornerstone to the beginnings of this nation, where, by the way, no one forces us to live. Since I am staying I would like it to be functioning better for everyone. Nothing of high quality comes cheap in a democracy. And I look at transportation as an investment in our future that pays dividends to me (indirectly) later.