Yeah that's fine but we've really moved the goalposts here. OP mentioned that OP had never received student loans or disability payments. Somehow that inspired a rude comment based on some very developed-world assumptions concerning public infrastructure. Yes, in most situations we see, it's good for public infrastructure to be built using public money. That doesn't mean that someone who e.g. purchases a kerosene lamp to light her home at night should feel thankful toward the government officials who haven't yet nationalized and dismantled the container port that offloaded it, who haven't yet closed the dirt road over which it was hauled by truck, whose military hasn't yet run the local store that sold it out of business for insufficient bribery. Hell, all the infrastructure we're discussing might well have been built during a previous government that was violently overthrown by the current one! Who should she thank in that case?

When I was last in a "developing" nation, back in January, my hosts observed that the only existing paved road outside a large city, over which bus, truck, and agricultural traffic was solid day and night, was built and maintained by the federal government rather than the provincial one, because otherwise the money just disappeared. When we reflexively castigate those with questions about the use of public money (or frankly, in this thread, who are misunderstood to have posed such questions), we're protecting those who are glad for no questions to be asked. That's true in both "developing" and "developed" nations.