Year, those numbers make basically no sense. Even your link doesn't prove what it claims in the headline. The government shovels billions from the general fun

Year, those numbers make basically no sense. Even your link doesn't prove what it claims in the headline. The government shovels billions from the general fund into the highway fund every year. The highway fund disburses a much smaller number of billions into transit projects every year. Therefore the fuel tax does not cover the cost of highway spending. I'll stop here because I have a policy against arguing with libertarians on the internet, but in case you are interested in facts from actual research rather than from political mouthpieces here's one. The URL says it all: http://taxfoundation.org/article/gasoline-taxes-and-tolls-pay-only-third-state-local-road-spending http://taxfoundation.org/article/gasoline-taxes-and-tolls-pa...