I’m sorry, you keep citing your imagination, whereas I am looking at actual figures from the real world. Why is that so upsetting to you?

Looking into my own state’s finances seems to suggest you’re not taking into account the full cost of operating roads. If 100% of my state’s (Texas) vehicle sales taxes and gasoline taxes went into the highway fund they still couldn’t meet the budget just for keeping the highways open, not without federal cash anyway…

Oh? And where is your proof?

Earth to Miles, Earth to Miles... everybody gets taxed indirectly for most things.

You’re the only one that doesn’t understand how taxes or general funds work. And still refuse to believe a plain fact that a city can, and has, funded a transit system without taxing motoring. As is typical, for your sort, any time facts show you to be wrong you just ignore them and act like the whole world must be…

You’ve been out of elementary school for like, a year! How dare your pennies get spent on it.

I think you’re just mad that transit can be funded without taxes taken from motoring. Even though most of those car/fuel/whatever taxes go into a general fund, and were never, in any sense meant to pay for roads specifically.

What does that sentence have to do with anything? You’re not even attempting to make sense, or you’ve entirely misunderstood what I wrote.

What a wonderful state, filled with beautiful people.

I just pointed out an instance where tax payers voted to use sales tax to successfully fund a transit project, and you soiled yourself. I gave a fact, you gave nothing.

Point me to the time I said the motorcar has to be replaced by mass transit. You’ve lost so bad you’ve resorted to telling me I’ve written things I didn’t write.

Interesting that many companies worked fine until private vehicles and heavily subsidized trucking took their business...

Why not? Do you assume everybody is a stupid asshole that wants to see their city choke to death? Denver’s voters approved an increase in sales tax to fund their light rail system (which works beautifully, by the way, I can attest, having lived in Denver before the system, and visited many times after it was put into…

Yeah if you believe in propaganda that slants it that way.

I’m even going to read your whole post because the first few sentences indicate an astonishing degree of ignorance. Retail taxes generally go into a GENERAL FUND. That’s not unusual or some conspiracy that only a complete dumbass would think is slanted against motorists.

I suppose you have no political agenda then, oh righteous one.

You need to hit the history books again...

I understand it. You don’t seem to be the one that understands how taxes work, possibly even what taxes are.

I understand it. You don’t seem to be the one that understands how taxes work, possibly even what taxes are.

My assessment is based of real world experiences, both historical, as well as current, as well as those experienced first hand when I lived in Denver. I remember the city before light rail, and I experienced it after, and all I can say is thank goodness a bunch of nincompoops didn’t get their way and stall building…