Government extorts money from people through taxation, it does not have money itself. For every step that dollar takes it is stolen from more. I will give an example. If the government steals a dollar from you to give it to your neighbor as food stamps, it is taken from you against your consent by someone in your local government. They are working for $, so their cut, let's say is 5 cents. 1.00-.05=.95 They hand it off to county government .95-.05=.90 To your state .90-.10= .80 to your regional people .80-.05= .75 Finally, it is off to the Federal government to process and take their cut and return .75-.25= .50 Now it is time for the government to be generous with your money. They send it back to the region .50-.05= .45 the State .45-.10=.35 county .35-.05=.30 and finally your local government .30-.05=.25 gives your neighbor .25 $ in food stamps. How is it more money for local governments? I would go next door and give my neighbor a meal= $15.00, but if you have local government handling it, sure they will have to do more but it would be closer to this stolen $1.00-.25=.75, given to your neighbor. Does that help?
So yes MUH ROADS! will get taken care of as well and use above formula to calculate. Just as an aside my government roads are horrible here in Indiana, are yours better?
Absolutely I help the poor, I recently was involved in a drive to clothe local homeless people. I also donate to my local food bank, which my wife volunteers at. As for guns, yes obviously I support people having the right to their own property but what does that have to do with the current question?