That's exactly the point, I don't mind that the people have access to that infrastructure if that's all they have, even if I don't personally need it. My inlaws would be dead without their car. You don't get to pay taxes for things you personally need and complain that other people got theirs, which is what you are doing.

The infrastructure needed is not the same for goods, and public services compared to tens of millions of people driving, and thus doesn't cost nearly the same. So the point of my post still stands -- I pay for a lot of things I don't need as it is, including the ridiculous gas tax reduction so everybody can pretend it's business as usual that will end up being more expensive than the 9 Euro train ticket.

> I don't mind that the people have access to that infrastructure if that's all they have, even if I don't personally need it.

You miss the point completely. You need it. You don’t drive but you consume services directly depending on this infrastructure.

I do not need it in the amount that it exists, which I have already stated. I did not write a long post, so there was no need to miss it. It is quite clear that the infrastructure needed is very different with and without tens of millions of private car owners. Furthermore, the users of the infrastructure that I depend on already pay their share because they pay the toll for infrastructure use (e.g. LKW Maut, DB pays for the usage of the railway). So in a nutshell, my taxes are used for your Autobahn, so yours can be used for my train ticket. If you don't like that arrangement, fine by me, let everybody pay just for what they use, but be consistent about it. It will be better for me that way since cars infrastructure is expensive to a ridiculous degree. You can't have everything, sorry.

You only benefit from the road infrastructure used to transport goods to your location, more or less. Yet your taxes clearly go into a general revenue stream that could be used for any road in the entire country.

Anyway you don't get to pick and choose with taxes - although car owners are the absolute worst at wanting things like bicycle licensing.

Yes. So you live in the middle of the country. Some goods come from East, some West, some South, other from the North. It’s good that the infrastructure exists everywhere, no?

My point is you don't get to pick and choose. Lots of roads will never benefit for me, yet some % of my tax will be allocated to them. Learn to live with it, I suppose - anyone critical of extreme car-infrastructure overbuild had to learn to live with it 75 years ago.