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>not only do you pay a boatload of money for highway expansion you have to then go and buy an expensive car and fuel too.

the federal excise tax on fuel pays for (at least in part) the "boatload of money for highway expansion "




Not much. A lot more comes from state funding, which can be anything from property tax to sales tax to additional fuel taxes. Because you pay about the same fuel tax per mile on a 60 mph road as a 25 mph road (but the 60mph road costs 100x as much), you also find driving on slow roads becomes a subsidy to building fast roads.


No it doesn't.

Fuel tax income is ~100 Billion

Road expenditures are ~200 Billion

(Combined state and federal)




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