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KrissaKray t1_j7ui1h0 wrote

Reply to comment by SkiingAway in Want passenger rail in Manchester? Make your voice heard by PurpleSubtlePlan

Where do the funds come from? I’m asking because you seem like the expert in this.

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SkiingAway t1_j7upwn9 wrote

NH actually does better than the average state, to be clear - it's around #13 - about 60% of road costs were covered by those kinds of user fees in FY 2016 Source.

> Where do the funds come from? I’m asking because you seem like the expert in this.

Other "general" tax revenues.

Especially at the federal level. The infrastructure bill that's sending billions in $ to NH, is not coming from the gas tax.

The normal federal share of road infrastructure projects is increasingly not coming from gas taxes. The federal highway trust fund that pays for those is theoretically funded by the gas tax....but the tax hasn't been increased since 1993, things clearly cost more today than 30 years ago, and so Congress transfers billions per year of general revenue (income taxes and the like) to plug the gap.

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TarantinoFan23 t1_j7uyq0t wrote

Soild facts and logic are often completely ignored by the person you are trying to inform. They cannot change their view. Some sort of primitive brain malfunction.

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