I'm not sure that's a very tenable position. To play devil's advocate - the taxes I pay go towards many, many, things which I never (directly) use; you can only abstractly argue that such things benefit society as a whole, which eventually probably benefits me, even if I myself don't make use of them. For example, maybe you believe this, and I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but should people who have kids in school pay more taxes allocated to schools than people that don't have any kids? Right now everyone pays equally. Should roads be the same or different? Having a transportation network benefits society as a whole, whether or not you even drive.
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