Here are another 96 everyday reasons to feel good about taxes….

The following examples of tax-supported public services were noted in a column by Heather Mallick, Toronto Star, April 16, 2011.

“Taxes pay for good things that we don’t think about until they vanish:

1. traffic lights
2. military graveyards
3. restaurant kitchen inspection
4. best-before dates on cheese
5. transport-truck safety
6. passports
7. immunization
8. filtration standards for urban cremation chimneys
9. crosswalk-painting
10. drainage
11. bank deposit insurance
12. child-support enforcement
13. prison guards
14. chiropractor regulation
15. bridges
16. tunnels
17. flag design
18. auditors-general
19. airwaves usage
20. census-taking

The rest of the list is here