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Is the Gas and sales tax a disinsentive for local goverments to support fraight and passenger rail?
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I met with a County commisioner for Montgomery county NY last week about a proposal to reactivtate a rail spur to a new Wall Mart Warehouse that sees about 500 trucks a day.....His objection was "IF we build a rail spur what will happen to all the gas tax and sales tax revenue that we collect at our local truck stop here?" This is a good question...Same for commuter rail what will happen to all those people who take the train to work and not be buying gasoline and paying local taxes? Seems that we are hopelessy addicted to oil.. <br />and it may be too late to get into rehab.[}:)]
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