AIBU to question people claiming they would happily pay more tax?

Taxes on lower incomes are obviously lower, so they can afford to pay their taxes to pay for the roads but there's a good chance they can't afford to pay fees every time they drive.

Source for that data? My parents used to live in an area where the roads were unadopted and they were in absolutely terrible condition.

Sucks to be them I guess

It is theft. Look it up yourself. It's all there.

Yes it absolutely is and I wasn't arguing for everybody only having to fund things that they agree with at all. I pay the tax I am required to pay and have no issue with that, even though much of it is used for things I might not fully support, because as you say, that's how society and democracy works.

My point was that the question of paying more was far more complex, and the same rules and expectations are unlikely to apply. This is basically how charitable giving works... people pick causes they support. Voluntary giving to an unspecified 'cause' feels pretty unlikely, by anybody, and that's ultimately what the OP is asking about. And that's quite aside from the conversation around value for money from government generally. Tax paying is still a transaction and all transactions have a value assessment in there somewhere, i.e. the payer has an opinion about whether what they are paying for is good value. In the case of normal taxation, the choice not to complete the transaction requires the payers to elect another government. For voluntary additional giving, the expectation of seeing some kind of value must surely be higher, because that is what drives the action. There are quite a lot of behavioural barriers to voluntary giving, even for people who in principle would support it.

I guess what I mean is there are three answers to the question "would you be happy to pay more tax?"... a) yes and I don't care where it goes, b) yes under certain stipulations, and c) no not ever. When people say they would be happy to pay more, they are saying they are part of group b. I know of not one single person who is really group a, and of course many are group c. The people in group b would in principle be happy to pay more under certain circumstances. They've not been met and nothing has convinced then it would be a smart thing to do. It doesn't mean their claim is dishonest.

If you're not prepared to pay taxes you cannot expect to have the nhs or benefits. The taxes are far less than those things would cost you annually

So you have no source for your claim and you don't care that private roads don't work for everyone. Lovely.

Again. Think about it. What's a road? A flat piece of straight land. Why do you need a wasteful government to forcefully extract taxation to pay for it.

Why is 60% taxes on successful hard workers needed to pay for a road

If it’s all there post a link. It isn’t theft.

A road is a bit more than a flat piece of straight land you know, there's quite a few layers of material needed to make a road and a lot of work. You claimed private roads are better maintained but still haven't provided a source and shrugged off my experience of badly maintained private roads. And who is paying 60% taxes? No one. And taxes pay for a hell of a lot more than roads. How about police? Would you like to have to pay privately for protection? Fire insurance so you get a chance of firefighters coming if your house catches fire? But alas your neighbours don't have fire insurance so your house gets damaged anyway when theirs catches fire.