Money is fungible, through progressive taxation those people (unless they are hedge fund managers who pay lower tax than almost everyone else) heavily contribute to the tax base even if it isn't earmarked for roads to the extent gas is.
> (unless they are hedge fund managers who pay lower tax than almost everyone else)
Everyone whose income is largely derived through long-term capital gains does this, really; hedge-fund managers just happen to be people who seem like they are working for someone else but manage to get paid for that work in a way that gets them taxed like capitalists.
(Which might explain while a few notable actual major capitalists -- who don't favor general reform of taxation on capital -- have come out in favor of reforms that would tax hedge-fund manager earnings like normal income.)
