Indeed. 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 an

Indeed. 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.