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The federal tax dollar revenues fund new construction only, with either new highways or rebuilding old highways...... Not one red cent goes to maintenance...... Maintenance funds come from the state and local governments...... The feds have spent over $1 trillion building new federally signed/marked highways in the past 50 years...... Its amazing how Amtrak's critics could possibly suggest that $24 billion over the past 40 years have been a huge tax boondoggle..... less than a quarter of one percent of the funds spent on new highways..... Frankly, if the feds had instituted a one cent sales tax to fund passenger rail, we would have the best passenger rail network in the world, far surpassing the Europeans..... With a $7 trillion gross national product, a one cent sales tax would generate up to $70 billion a year to fund a national passenger railroad...... More than enough to build a new HSR network from New York City to Chicago, Washington DC to Miami, and from Chicago and Miami's corridors to Texas, a state with over 22 million people living in it.....not to mention a corridor in California linking northern and southern California..... IN ONE YEAR!
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