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IIRC, gas tax comes pretty close to paying for roads - as in, its not enough, but not an order of magnitude off.


Roughly half, though this varies widely and is prone to differences of opinion on what counts as paying for roads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_State...

https://taxfoundation.org/gasoline-taxes-and-user-fees-pay-o...


Aside from the fact that this isn't really true, you have to also account for many externalities that car dominance creates:

- Land use. While every transportation mode uses land, cars use way more, and in dense urban areas that land is very valuable; users of the land who are driving are getting it 'for free', when it could go to a more productive purpose.

- Pollution

- Noise

- Danger

All of these are 'costs' that just looking at how much money you spend on roads won't account for.




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