You are on your own, California

[DiveCon]

Do I need to fucking spell it out for you?

If there are so many more people who just use roads as opposed to mass transit, why are taxes coming from general funds to pay for roads?

Because a shitload of the money collected from fuel taxes, which are supposed to be going to roads and bridges, are being funneled to those mass transit money pits.

I'm certain that was already spelled out for you....Having problems reading for comprehension??

Really? Care to provide proof of that?

gas taxes only make up 32% of what Texas spends on transportation costs. Do you think that roads are more, or less than 32% of what Texas spends on transportation costs?

By the way, thats ONLY the state. That doesn't include all the city roads which are paid for via non gas taxes.

and how many times do you need it pointed out to you that the money spent on "transportation" is NOT just roads


btw, cities and counties pay for their road projects via state and federal grants and local property taxes
some locals have put on additional gas taxes

 

[Oddball]

Citizens Against Government Waste:

 

[Nik]

Because a shitload of the money collected from fuel taxes, which are supposed to be going to roads and bridges, are being funneled to those mass transit money pits.

I'm certain that was already spelled out for you....Having problems reading for comprehension??

Really? Care to provide proof of that?

gas taxes only make up 32% of what Texas spends on transportation costs. Do you think that roads are more, or less than 32% of what Texas spends on transportation costs?

By the way, thats ONLY the state. That doesn't include all the city roads which are paid for via non gas taxes.

and how many times do you need it pointed out to you that the money spent on "transportation" is NOT just roads

I was waiting for this.

The state spends vast sums on transportation. In 2004 Texas spent 8.6 percent (or, one dollar of every 12 in the budget) on transportation. Furthermore, more than two-thirds of those transportation dollars ($3.77 billion of the total $5.25 billion) were spent on highway construction, maintenance and repair.

Texas Politics - Political Economy

32% of the transportation budget is gotten from gas taxes. 66% of the transportation budget is spent on roads. Can you do the math?

 

[DiveCon]

Really? Care to provide proof of that?

gas taxes only make up 32% of what Texas spends on transportation costs. Do you think that roads are more, or less than 32% of what Texas spends on transportation costs?

By the way, thats ONLY the state. That doesn't include all the city roads which are paid for via non gas taxes.

and how many times do you need it pointed out to you that the money spent on "transportation" is NOT just roads

I was waiting for this.

The state spends vast sums on transportation. In 2004 Texas spent 8.6 percent (or, one dollar of every 12 in the budget) on transportation. Furthermore, more than two-thirds of those transportation dollars ($3.77 billion of the total $5.25 billion) were spent on highway construction, maintenance and repair.

Texas Politics - Political Economy

32% of the transportation budget is gotten from gas taxes. 66% of the transportation budget is spent on roads. Can you do the math?

no, thats NOT what is says you liar
it said that 32% is from STATE GAS TAX
they didnt say what percent came from federal gas tax

 

[Nik]

and how many times do you need it pointed out to you that the money spent on "transportation" is NOT just roads

I was waiting for this.

The state spends vast sums on transportation. In 2004 Texas spent 8.6 percent (or, one dollar of every 12 in the budget) on transportation. Furthermore, more than two-thirds of those transportation dollars ($3.77 billion of the total $5.25 billion) were spent on highway construction, maintenance and repair.

Texas Politics - Political Economy

32% of the transportation budget is gotten from gas taxes. 66% of the transportation budget is spent on roads. Can you do the math?

no, thats NOT what is says you liar
it said that 32% is from STATE GAS TAX
they didnt say what percent came from federal gas tax

Well the Texas gas tax was 23 cents. Federal tax is 18 cents. You do the math. Even if every single cent from the federal gas tax in Texas went to the Texas department of transportation it still wouldn't make up the difference . Of course, that doesn't include city roads, and there would be no money for federal roads in Texas either.

 

[DiveCon]

I was waiting for this.



Texas Politics - Political Economy

32% of the transportation budget is gotten from gas taxes. 66% of the transportation budget is spent on roads. Can you do the math?

no, thats NOT what is says you liar
it said that 32% is from STATE GAS TAX
they didnt say what percent came from federal gas tax

Well the Texas gas tax was 23 cents. Federal tax is 18 cents. You do the math. Even if every single cent from the federal gas tax in Texas went to the Texas department of transportation it still wouldn't make up the difference . Of course, that doesn't include city roads, and there would be no money for federal roads in Texas either.

then take the non-road funding out of it
it would be more than enough
just in the savings of sending the money to washington

 

[Nik]

no, thats NOT what is says you liar
it said that 32% is from STATE GAS TAX
they didnt say what percent came from federal gas tax

Well the Texas gas tax was 23 cents. Federal tax is 18 cents. You do the math. Even if every single cent from the federal gas tax in Texas went to the Texas department of transportation it still wouldn't make up the difference . Of course, that doesn't include city roads, and there would be no money for federal roads in Texas either.

then take the non-road funding out of it
it would be more than enough
just in the savings of sending the money to washington

No, it wouldn't. Road funding is 66% of the budget. Gas taxes (ALL) gas taxes would only make up approximately 63% of the budget. You understand now whats going on?

 

[DiveCon]

Well the Texas gas tax was 23 cents. Federal tax is 18 cents. You do the math. Even if every single cent from the federal gas tax in Texas went to the Texas department of transportation it still wouldn't make up the difference . Of course, that doesn't include city roads, and there would be no money for federal roads in Texas either.

then take the non-road funding out of it
it would be more than enough
just in the savings of sending the money to washington

No, it wouldn't. Road funding is 66% of the budget. Gas taxes (ALL) gas taxes would only make up approximately 63% of the budget. You understand now whats going on?

yes, it would you stupid fuck

 

[Nik]

then take the non-road funding out of it
it would be more than enough
just in the savings of sending the money to washington

No, it wouldn't. Road funding is 66% of the budget. Gas taxes (ALL) gas taxes would only make up approximately 63% of the budget. You understand now whats going on?

yes, it would you stupid fuck

So you think that we could the funds that could make up %63 of the budget to pay %66 of the budget?

Care to explain how exactly?

 

[Oddball]

It's like a Martian trying to talk to a fungo!!

 

[Nik]

It's like a Martian trying to talk to a fungo!!

You don't know math either, eh?