Flame — HabitableZone

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Okay. Here's how it is on highways.
TB — (archived)

Yet it's plain that the rate of repair has stagnated since the money to make the repairs has been, um, reallocated to the private sector under Bush.

No. It isn't plain. Like so much around here this "fact" is pulled out of the ether because so many people think it ought to be true, and it makes them feel righteous to think that it is true.

This is where the money comes from for highways. There's a chart near the bottom, but you might want to read the whole thing since the first part describes the actual spending trends on highways. Upward.

More detailed numbers are here.

I won't pretend to be an expert in all the ramifications here, but the short version is that Federal income taxes have almost nothing to do with the cash flow to highways.

The lion's share of highway funding comes from gas taxes. In other words, every Prius that hits the road, and every government mandate to increase car mileage, cuts the highway budget. Income tax cuts don't. Think about that for a while.

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