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Could N.American society have successfully evolved into heavy use of passenger rail?
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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by DSchmitt</i> <br /><br />The Highway system is not subsidized. It is paid for by user fees. Fuel taxes excise taxes and fees paid by the automobile owners/users and truck owners. <br /> <br />Local streets and roads are another matter. They are mainly paid for from local revenues: property taxes, sales taxes and sometimes special assesments (usually on developers) . If the auto never existed the Highway system would be much less developed, but local street and roads would still be necessary. <br />[/quote]A Rose, is a Rose, is a Rose, by any other name. . . . . The same applies to taxes, subsidies and government grants. The all come from and are financed by the same form. Somebody's pocket, earnings of a business or realized interest and/or earnings on non tax exempt securities, sales taxes, user fees and a lots of other immaginative ways that governments have of getting more of what belongs to someone else, legally one has very little choice in but agreeing to pay no matter what its use may be.
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