>>507996202A half decent safety net, public transit, snow removal, reasonable school funding, decent salaries for state workers, etc. Where I'm at, you pay about the same, but you just get nothing for it--everything is massively underfunded/bare minimum, and any kind of benefit is almost entirely funded by the feds, and the state legislature even throw an absolute bitch fit about that. The only thing I can really think is that my tax money is being handed out to religious faggots. Idk what else they're doing with it.