Education...FDA...CDC...Nuclear Fission/Fusion development..etc, etc.?
I'm sorry to break this to you, but reliance on the whims of 1%ers won't cut it...
also, never forget that government funded basic research that gave us MRIs...Supercomputers...microchips...autonomous robots...barcodes...Human Genome Project...GPS...and many, many more products that led to major industries with jobs that pay taxes...hopefully.