You need to do a little more research on that claim. Roads are paid for partly by use taxes, but mostly from the general fund, which is personal and corporate income taxes.

Algol -> Cambridge Programming Language (CPL) -> Basic CPL -> B -> C

I think I recall Dennis Ritchie mentioning that the first C compiler was written in B (before rewriting it in C) but perhaps he said the language was based on B but the compiler was written in BCPL. There must be something written down on the interwebs about this.