• 13igTyme@piefed.social
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    16 hours ago

    One thing not included in either your calculations or the other person’s, is we also subsidized the oil industry. So even if you don’t drive at all your still paying tax for money that ends up being for oil companies and roads.

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      7 hours ago

      The gas tax also only covers about half of road expenditures generally. The myth that the gas tax funds roads is a convenient lie to get people to believe they are acting independently when every commute they take in their lifted Ford F8500 Eagle edition is in fact reliant on state welfare