There obviously arent enough private roads. Also, I have no problem with roads, schools, medicare and social security. I also dont have an issue with being angry that people are on government dole. My problem is that people demonize "welfare" recipients as if they are any different than a large swath of SS and Medicare recipients. The fact is, we don't know how much they have paid in taxes in they have been here and taxes fund TANF and WIC and EITC. So if you are going to say "this person is on TANF and sucks", you should also look at in the mirror and say "hmm how much did I pay into SS and how much have I gotten so far", because given the demographics of people that are most likely to say "this person on TANF sucks", its likely you are both net takers.

See below for my rationale for why Medicare/Social Security is welfare.

Medicare/Social Security are welfare for old people that are packaged in such a way that old people can sleep at night knowing "they paid in" since there are specific taxes collected for the benefit and you have to work for a certain amount of years to "earn it". While its great that they paid in and they worked for 10 years, their benefit is not directly linked to the taxes they have paid. Further, the taxes they have paid in total are no where near enough to pay for all of their benefits. If you could prove to me that the amounts paid in by each year of retiree=the amounts received by each year of retiree (i.e. for all of the people that started collecting SS in 1988, they paid in X collectively and received benefits of X collectively), they I would buy that it is just a redistribution of amounts people paid in. But you cant prove that, because beneficiaries are getting more than they paid in (other than rich people, who probably pay in more than they receive or people who die young). Not only that, the 10 year work requirement and the tax are completely arbitrary #s. If the government changed the program and said "you work for 1 year and pay taxes for that year and you will get $5K for the rest of your life", would you say that you "paid in"? I assume no, but given my experience with a fair amount of people currently on SS/Medicare, they would do whatever mental gymnastics are required to say that they arent on welfare.

To further establish my POV, I will link to a conservative think tank website (for the record, I disagree with the reason they wrote the article, but I agree with the conclusion).

https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/is-social-security-welfare/

On the public schools, there is nothing in the constitution that guarantees an education (as far as I know). Further, if I send my kid to a private school and continue to pay all of my state and property taxes, I am paying for a service provided by the government and not using it. How is this any different that "welfare"? I pay taxes, the government takes those taxes and provides social services (e.g. schools, welfare, roads, police, fire etc.). If I don't partake in those social services, I am effectively providing welfare to everyone else.

Lastly, if the issue is, we need to stop taking in immigrants because they are net takers, I think you have to look at more long run statistics.