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I'm looking at the numbers...Latest ones I could find was 2011. The Feds took in over 41 billion dollars in gasoline tax. That's a lot of money.
All I can see on how much Congress had to add to the fund over the last few years was where it says that between 2008 and 2010 Congress added a total of 35 billion. So that's a little over 11 billion dollars more per year.
So let's say that they did that again in 2011. That gave the Hwy fund around 52 BILLION dollars to spend that year alone.
The richest guy is Bill Gates...he's worth 76 billion dollars all together. So his work over his lifetime is just a little more than the Feds have in the "insolvent" Highway fund EVERY YEAR!
Man, if they can't repair roads in the U.S. with 52 BILLION dollar PER YEAR...there must be a lot of waste and stealing and corruption.
I'd think that with 52 billion dollars we would drive on the most beautiful highways of all times. And they are spending that kind of money every year? Wow.
We are in the wrong business. We need to be in the business of being in the govt.
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