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Originally Posted by Sly
It's not ridiculous at all because that's exactly what is happening. Again, you are admitting the fund is being subsidized by other taxes yet trying to find a way around it with a technicality that does not even apply.
There is no analogy. There is no other explanation. Money comes in, money goes out. That's how taxes work. That's how this tax was designed.
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Let me offer another analogy:
you operate a taxi service, you charge $10 for a trip to the airport
you do 10 routes, call it a day, go out to dinner and spend $30...
next day you go fill up your gas tank, bill is $80 and notice there is only $70 in your pocket...
what conclusions do you draw from this?
- the $10 charge is not enough to operate this business profitably? translation: "gasoline taxes are not enough to cover the costs of the highways"
- perhaps you have to "subsidize" $10 from your own money? translation: "federal income taxes are subsidizing the highways"
- or perhaps you have to just give back the $30 that you spent on dinner? so then you not only can pay for gas, you have $20 left saved up for repairs when they come up?