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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So? Drivers only pay about 20% of the cost of roads. Want to pay European prices for gas?[/quote]

Nonsense. Drivers pay for roads in a thousand different ways -- the gas tax, registration fees, title fees, inspection fees, license fees, parking fees, traffic fines and of course income taxes, which are mostly paid by the rich and how many rich people do you know who don't have a car?[/quote]

You had me at "traffic fines", lol. That's like saying criminals who get caught hopping the faregates are really paying for Metro when they pay their fines. Do you even listen to yourself??[/quote]

I dont understand which part of this is confusing to you (or why you sound like such a dick?). Politicians come up with lots of creative (and sneaky) ways to get the money they need. The city collects more than a quarter billion dollars in traffic camera tickets every year. Where do you think that money goes? The Department of Transportation itself says the money is used to pay for infrastructure. [/quote]

Because you're either lying through your teeth or have no idea what's going on.

Fines are a penalty for breaking the law, not generous funding of the system. And those fines have not gone to improving infrastructure for years thanks to Muriel Bowser. Pay attention.

Most of the things you listed, like income tax, are things levied on people who don't drive, so counting that is either disingenuous or dumb.

Face it, your driving is subsidized. And if we want to talk about all the wars we fight over oil then the subsidy goes away up.[/quote]

Do you even live here? DC spends an *incredible" amount of money on infrastructure. I bet there isn't another city in the Western Hemisphere that spends anywhere close to DC on a per capita basis. The city finances that in a million different ways, but one of them is issuing 3 million plus traffic tickets a year to a city with only a few hundred thousand cars. You can put whatever label on that you like, but it's taking money from drivers and spending it on roads. And 80 percent of income taxes are paid by the top 10 percent of earners. Do you think a 50 year old doctor working 70 hours a week doesn't drive to work?[/quote]

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