And the public libraries. And the conservation areas and parks.

All achieved through taxation. All achieved by socialism, without which it is simply impossible to even have a modern and functioning society.

We (at least in the USA) need a new understanding of a few basic words in the language. "socialism" is one of them. The word socialism is constantly misused by American politicians and pundits for propaganda purposes in order to scare people who have, it seems, little or no idea of what socialism actually is. It's not an all-or-nothing proposition. It is a normal social thing that takes care of certain societal necessities that can't be taken care of in any other way.