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In Australia road users pay more than twice as much in petrol tax as is spent on roads. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-21/fuel-excise-not-being-spent-on-r
by sien 2y ago
In Australia road users pay more than twice as much in petrol tax as is spent on roads.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-21/fuel-excise-not-being-spent-on-roads-amid-calls-to-cut-tax/100920658 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-21/fuel-excise-not-being...
So the recovery ratio is more than 200%.
- sien 2y agoThe other way to look at subsidies for transport is per passenger mile : This has data for the US. https://www.newgeography.com/content/006415-transport-costs-subsidies-mode https://www.newgeography.com/content/006415-transport-costs-...
- simoncion 2y agoThat report says that that tax is to be spent on roads, transport, biking infrastructure & etc. I also expect that you don't have any idea how much of the total road-maintenance funding comes from that tax, and how much of it comes from other sources. (It's also... odd... to start off talking about tax and revenue policies in the US, and then suddenly switch to an entirely separate country (given that the US is uniquely car-centric and politically fucked-up) but whatever.)