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> Drivers in theory pay for the roads and everything else. What theory? Roads are paid for from everyday taxes/debt issue.
by jackvalentine 4y ago
> Drivers in theory pay for the roads and everything else.
What theory? Roads are paid for from everyday taxes/debt issue.
- fnord123 4y agoIndeed. You are debunking a commonly repeated myth. https://uspirg.org/reports/usp/who-pays-roads https://uspirg.org/reports/usp/who-pays-roads > Gas taxes and other fees paid by drivers now cover less than half of road construction and maintenance costs nationally – down from more than 70 percent in the 1960s – with the balance coming chiefly from income, sales and property taxes and other levies on general taxpayers. · General taxpayers at all levels of government now subsidize highway construction and maintenance to the tune of $69 billion per year – an amount exceeding the expenditure of general tax funds to support transit, bicycling, walking and passenger rail combined.