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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In this thread: many suburbanite bridge and tunnel people who don't go to DC anyway.

Hint: We are tired of subsidizing your car use. Get over it and cry more people. lol.[/quote]

Pfft. Drivers pay for everything. We finance roads in this country through a combination of taxes and fees. Drivers pay the gas tax. They pay outrageous registration and inspection and tag fees to the city. They pay laughably expensive traffic citations. Both DC and the feds have a highly progressive tax system, which means rich people pay nearly all the taxes. You think your surgeon doesn't drive a car?

If you're a bike riding car hater who makes low six figures (or less), you're the freeloader here. [/quote]

Keep crying, oh privileged one. It's not going to make your silly notions any the more correct.

Gas taxes and "[b][i]outrageous[/i][/b] registration and inspection and tag fees . . . and [b][i]laughably expensive[/i][/b] traffic citations" don't begin to cover the costs of building and maintaining roads. Here is a deep dive into some data that might begin to get that through to your thick skull:

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2020/01/21/drivers-pay-4x-more-for-cell-phones-than-roads

The burden of building and maintaining roads falls on general taxation. Many of those taxpayers - both rich and poor - drive, but plenty do not (including some surgeons).

The clear takeaway is that drivers, collectively, are some of the biggest welfare queens in America. Deal with it and move on without slinging nonsense everywhere you go. [/quote]

And here's an analysis done by the Cato Institute, of all places, that demonstrates that even California - which has some of the highest car use fees in the nation - subsidizes drivers: https://www.cato.org/blog/driving-california-subsidized-1

[quote]Our finding is that driving-related expenditures exceed revenues by over $3 billion . . . So, in California, assertions by transit advocates that driving is subsidized appear to be empirically supported. Comparable analyses in other states may yield different conclusions. Although subsidies for driving are smaller than those for transit, they nonetheless merit criticism from those of us who believe in small government and fiscal responsibility.[/quote][/quote]

I like the super weird blogs people cite on this thread. It's like they're citing, as an authority, some strange AM radio station they heard while driving through Alabama. This guy said it! It must be true![/quote]

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