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The government wasting our money is not reason to take more of our money
These 2 Charts Prove American Drivers Don't Pay Enough for Roads
To wit: Americans pay around $450 a year in road charges, according to the data compiled by Gomez and Vassallo. That's roughly 3 to 4 times less drivers from other countries in the study. Once again the key culprit is the gas tax. U.S. gas tax rates are up to 83 percent lower for gasoline cars and 81 percent lower for diesel cars compared to the same taxes paid in European nations.
Gomez and Vassallo conclude:
The US funding model has showed itself to have a limited capacity to meet the increasing demands of road programs in the future. In this respect, it seems clear that significantly relying for the securing of funds on non-revisable or seldom-revisable charges, as happens with the federal gas tax in the US, makes the system unsustainable in the long-term.
These 2 Charts Prove American Drivers Don't Pay Enough for Roads - CityLab
Gas tax falling short in paying for transportation needs
Highway advocates often claim that roads “pay for themselves,” with gasoline taxes and other charges to motorists covering – or nearly covering – the full cost of highway construction and maintenance.
They are wrong.
Highways do not – and, except for brief periods in our nation’s history – never have paid for themselves through the taxes that highway advocates label “user fees.”
Since 1947, the amount of money spent on highways, roads and streets has exceeded the amount raised through gasoline taxes and other so-called “user fees” by $600 billion (2005 dollars), representing a massive transfer of general government funds to highways.
Do Roads Pay for Themselves? | Frontier Group
It proves no such thing.
We collected 100 billion in 2013 alone in taxes and fees that were supposed to be earmarked for roads.
We overpay unions for road work, graft and corruption are rife within all federal highway projects.
That the corrupt ass wipes in government and unions commit malfeasance with our taxes does not mean we have too little money stolen from us.
Since 1947, the amount of money spent on highways, roads and streets has exceeded the amount raised through gasoline taxes and other so-called “user fees” by $600 billion (2005 dollars), representing a massive transfer of general government funds to highways.
The government wasting our money is not reason to take more of our money