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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]

Everyone who pays taxes pays for the roads, including those bike riding people who don't put nearly as much wear and tear on the surface.

And no, the cost for gas is highly subsidized and the taxes on it don't come close to paying for the roads.

ironically it is the people who are driving heavily subsidized cars who are the freeloaders.

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The lion's share of income taxes are paid by drivers, who obviously also pay the gas tax and and an almost impossibly long list of fees on top of that. The notion that they're some kind of welfare queens who are sponging off the rest of us is just bizarre. If drivers aren't paying their own way, then no one else in any other conceivable category is either, except maybe the crazy rich. [/quote]

This is not hard. But yet you don’t seem to get it. So let me explain it for you.

If you pay taxes and don’t drive, you are subsidizing those who drive.

If you pay taxes and drive, your lifestyle is subsidized by those who don’t drive.

The more you drive, the more your lifestyle is subsidized by those who don’t drive or drive less.

Drivers are not, by any measure, paying their own way.[/quote]

There's approximately 300,000 cars registered for the city, and there's approximately 315,000 households in the city. "Drivers" and "taxpayers", by and large, are the same people. The likelihood of someone owning a car(s) increases with income and you know what else increases with income? That's right! How much they pay in taxes! [/quote]

Everyone pays taxes. One-third of people don't drive.

Now, as it happens, I am both a taxpayer and a driver. I am also a transit user, a bicyclist, and a pedestrian. I pay $0 in traffic citations because I don't break traffic laws when I drive.[/quote]

[b]Everyone does not pay taxes! [/b]And the car registration numbers are the numbers! If one-third of adults actually didnt drive (and don't own cars), everyone else is going to have to own a whole lot of cars for the math to work out right. Obviously, the one-third figure is bogus.  [/quote]

Yes, you're right, billionaires don't pay taxes, at least not in the US tax system. Everyone else does, though.

One third of people living in the United States do not have a driver license. [/quote]

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