Reply #321: the analogy isn't even mine, it is made by a person in the OP...

[bridgit]

that by paying taxes you can sit wherever your having paid taxes entitles you to do so. public or not; the practical matter is that that is a low grade form of urban legend. neither i should mention are you "entitled" to sit on a bench in front of children swinging on a swing for having paid taxes. though to address your mention...

a driver's license is in the end: bought, tested, maintained by ancillary factors such as auto insurance, gas prices, mechanical up-keep, and so in a very real sense 'paid for'. to me it is neither privilege nor right; it is something that needs to be thus & so or i have to ride the bus. but it is certainly not 'a privilege' you receive as does a bush family member receive a privilege for having been born into the bush family.

the extension is mine & i stand by it. by simply paying taxes, or for that matter, having folding money in your pocket, you are not by that happenstance endowed with an extracurricular access to & usage of public parks that benefit a far greater vision field of citizens including they whom pay no taxes whatsoever.

my hope is that you have nice public parks in your town. we have several here where i live; but there are certain that had a host of restrictions placed upon them because others were not able to respect the wishes of either the greater whole, the charter, the foundation, or for that matter the republic.

though here i am glad you've brought up "municipal pools" in that i have an opportunity to report my displeasure with having to swim through some taxpayers pee whether their right, privilege, entitlement, or biological need to have expressed themselves however briefly.