Very little cash ends up going back to the city/state/country anyway.

Most of it goes into pockets of the politicians, their families and friends (through "contracts"), pet projects or to sustain unnecessary government spending (e.g. "affordable housing", where people on welfare get all sorts of benefits while they then go on to terrorize their neighborhood).

One of the most successful gaslight campaigns in history, I think, is convincing people that there needs to be direct taxation on all of these things in order to fund run down roads.