and the dollar amount of that 40% is a whole lot more than all the money that goes to transit and other social transportation options, "subsidized" (a word that should not be used; we don't talk about subsidized police protection or subsidized fire protection or subsidized garbage pickup). That said, 1K "Friends" should be severely criticized for their efforts to end the automatic indexing of the gas tax, which did a whole lot more damage to all of our causes than all the good they do by removing money from the transportation budget. The higher gas tax is paid only by people buying gas. The highwaymen always get their money anyway, so guess who gets the shaft in the transportation arena? Nice one, 1K and dim-bulb Spencer Black! "No nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." --James Madison, April 20, 1795
>>> Bridget Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/10/2007 1:09 PM >>> Another reason to go to the 1k Friends of Wisconsin website (in addition to info on the RTA that Matt Logan brought up) is they have a great new report on transportation funding that counters the claim anti-transit folks like to make that roads and highways "pay for themselves" through gas tax and registration fees while transit is "subsidized." Turns out 40% of road and highway costs are covered by property taxes. http://www.1kfriends.org/ _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
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