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Pastimes : Advanced Micro Devices - Off Topic
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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (860)2/26/2007 4:02:56 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1141
 
The closest I came to "spewing" opinion about the cost analysis of the gas tax, was to say that the amount taken in by the gas tax is enough to cover the amount spent on the Interstate highway system. If you have evidence that my statement is false, please present it. So far you have not. Even if my statement is incorrect (and I'm fairly certain that it isn't) it was only a small part of my post, and it being incorrect would only require a relatively minor modification of my post.

$40bil of federal highway money for "useless soundwalls" may not be true, but even if it is true its fairly irrelevant to the point. If over the years we have spent that much highway money on soundwalls, and if you regard them as useless, that wouldn't change the fact that the tax brings in more than the amount we are spending each year on the system.

As for "20 Billion dollar highway system in the hills of West Virginia, population 12, to disguise the route to the secret senate bomb shelter." I doubt very much that $20bil of the highway fund money was spent on highways to that shelter. If the money was spent on something other than highways, that supports my point, that the gas taxes bring in more money than is spent on interstate highways. Spending on a bomb shelter isn't highway spending, even if it is taken out of the highway fund. You can blast the spending if you want to. Maybe I'll join you. But it says nothing about the extent that the highways themselves are subsidized.
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