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If Cintra were required to pay property taxes, it would collect them from the users and pass them through to the taxing authority. Just like my company collected sales taxes and passed them through to the state! It would be an accounting wash.  Cintra will be required to pay taxes on the income that it generates from its road projects in the United States. It may also be required to pay some sales, excise, inventory, etc. taxes, and it will pay property taxes on any off-road facilities that it owns or rents.   Railroads pay property taxes, along with income taxes, inventory taxes, etc.  They don't charge themselves a user's fee. Actually, the railroads don't pay any taxes.  They are paid by the shippers.  Motorists (roughly 90 to 92 per cent of the population over 19 in 2011) pay user fees instead of property taxes. They also pay general taxes that flow into the general fund(s). A portion of these taxes flow back to fund the building and maintaining of the nation's roadways.    Governments recover the cost of the highways through direct and indirect user fees. Ultimately, motorists pay almost all of the cost of the nation's roads. It has been argued that people who don't drive are subsidizing those who do.  This is true to a limited extent. The millionaire who lives in Manhattan and does not drive is subsidizing the roads. But most of the 8 to ten per cent of people who are not motorists are relatively poor. They cannot afford a car and, in many instances, they pay little if any tax.   Those who argue that highways should be taxed overlook the benefits that good roads and highways bring to the country.  Without I-35 the town that I live in would be a small hamlet.  I-35 has helped turn it into a robust community of more than 55,000 people. Within a mile of the highway there are hundreds of businesses that otherwise would not be there.  They pay all  sorts of taxes.  If it were not for the highways, most of central Texas would be mesquite ranch land.  And the tax take would be minuscule.
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