NickB1967:
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Which explains all the gasoline taxes paid, often diverted to programs utterly unrelated to interstate construction and maintenance
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Good try but the gas tax pays for only about half of highway costs. Driving is heavily subsidized. This subsidy is subtantially higher if you include parking.
UPDATED: Drivers Cover Just 51 Percent of U.S. Road Spending
http://usa.streetsblog.org/2013/01/2...road-spending/
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How about giving up on the dead horse of passenger rail,
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Except that for most of the past decade, passenger rail ridership has increased nearly every year and set record riderships while vehicle miles traveled has decreased every year starting around 2006-07.