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or that the taxes are far too low to support the cost of road maintainance
by vidro3 8y ago
or that the taxes are far too low to support the cost of road maintainance
- mshkreli 8y agoDoubtful - we're talking about New York, after all.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoNew York's problem is that its fuel consumption has been flat for 50 years because of increasing fuel efficiency and low population growth. Meanwhile, everything else is more expensive to maintain so it must make up the difference with other funding sources or higher taxes. The latter is is difficult political issue when they are already near the top for state fuel taxation.
- amanaplanacanal 8y agoI don't think fuel taxes are enough to pay for road maintenance anywhere in the US. It's always supplemented by some amount of general fund dollars.