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> the government creates infrastructure to enable it.

Hearty laugh.

Yes, to a degree, but at the current time (and for a good long time) the US government does not even pretend to try. Tell me a significant infrastructure package since the interstates.

Many relevant infrastructure are created by telecom companies, should we owe taxes to those too?




> Many relevant infrastructure are created by telecom companies, should we owe taxes to those too?

They don’t have tax raising powers so they can’t. The US does so it can.




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