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To: i-node who wrote (802217)	8/17/2014 5:17:19 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579897

>> Its when you demand that planes and freeway travel be subsidy free; then we can talk about profitable trains. Let's talk about subsidies. How much do you believe the annual subsidies are for (a) Highways and (b) Air Travel? Since that is such an important issue with you, how about you tell us how much that runs each year? I don't know how much it runs........look at all the airport terminals, towers, runways...........yes, airlines pay for part of it but the rest is picked up by the feds. There is a tax on the fuel for planes but its not nearly enough to fund all the airport development in this country. The feds makes up the difference. Back in the late 1990s, the shortfull was estimated to be $10 billion per year. I don't know what it is now. With roads, yes, there is the gas tax but all the roads built before the tax was created were funded by the General Fund or by the states. And let me remind you............there were a lot of roads built before 1956. And guess what, the gas tax isn't sufficient: From 2008 to 2010, Congress authorized the transfer of $35 billion from the General Fund of the U.S. Treasury to keep the trust fund solvent. en.wikipedia.org