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[quote user="daveklepper"] This is response to the posting on the "New Approach" thread, which has been locked. The post indicated that truckers pay a fuel tax and railroads don't.   The location of this statement within the post indicated that perhaps the post intended to indicate that this was a hidden subsidy for railroads. It certainly is NOT!!! The fuel tax payed by the truckers is estimated to pay for 1/3-1/2 the maintenance costs of the highways that the trucks use as required by the truck traffic without the wear of other traffic. Railroads don't pay fuel taxes because they maintain their own right of way out their own earnings.[/quote] It strikes me that this topic belongs under general discussion.  The fact that railroads don't pay fuel taxes whereas truckers do has nothing to do with Amtrak, commuter rail, or any form of passenger rail in the United States. Under the Amtrak enabling legislation, the freight carriers that hoist Amtrak's trains may not pass along any taxes in the form of rentals to Amtrak. Amtrak pays no taxes as per the legislation that set it up.
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