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To: balrog666
and my only gripe is that my property taxes and gas taxes go to subsidize big whiners like you who would never dream of supporting $4 per gallon gas taxes to get cars to pay their true costs

Buzz! Wrongo! Your local property taxes don't pay for anything on interstates. Period.

The interstates cannot pay for themselves from self-generated gas taxes, because the taxes are far too low. They rely on gas taxes generated from driving on local roads (which is by far the largest source of vehicle miles); and local roads are paid for by local property taxes through local Streets Departments. My trips to the grocery store on the street in front of my house subsidize your interstate commute. So do my drives to the in-laws on the PA Turnpike.

Oh, and also: BUZZ, WRONGO AGAIN. The current US Highway Trust Fund has expanded it's assets for the last 15 years and spends less each year than it receives. No new $4.00/gallon taxes are need to pay for the Interstate Highway system. Period.

Again, Interstates exist because they get money from gas taxes derived from non-interstate driving. No Interstate could ever have been built based on the gas taxes produced from driving upon the interstates alone. And certainly, no private companies are coming forward with new Interstate proposals.

Anyway, the gas tax only pays for construction. It doesn't pay for maintainance and police.

Why don't you read the first 200 posts here or at least check your facts before you jump into the discussion with your ignorant comments and hateful namecalling?

I did Mr. Balrog666. Why don't you read my factual analysis of how Interstates don't make their own money for costs, but suck it out of the property tax roles and admit you are wrong?

238 posted on 01/07/2002 9:56:42 AM PST by Andrew Byler
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To: Andrew Byler
Anyway, the gas tax only pays for construction. It doesn't pay for maintainance and police

So what? If you object to the way the US Highway Trust Fund operates, work to change it.

But that has nothing to do with the above voluminously noted objections to taxpayer-funded railroad boondoggles. Nor the related New-Urbanist-lifestyle zoning restrictions imposed on private property to inhibit automobile usage.
239 posted on 01/07/2002 10:19:16 AM PST by balrog666
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