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Originally Posted by vfr99999  .You cannot be talking about our Oil industry must be the state run industry in Europe that taxes the fuel so gas is between 8 and 9 dollers per gallon. |
Calculate the cost of driving. I mean the true cost, not just the cost of car + maintenance + gas, but also incorporating the cost of building, maintaining, and policing (maintaining order and safety) the road system you rely on to make use of your car. Divide that by total miles travelled and you will quickly understand the reasons for the gasoline taxes that are imposed upon european drivers. Which, btw, do not come close to 8-9 per gallon, have you ever left this country or are you just spouting nonsense?
There is a conspiracy here, but it is not the government. It is our culture which believes that everyone in America should pay to subsidize your right to drive big ass cars wherever you please. What the europeans pay in fuel tax we pay in income/property tax (goes to maintaining our national/state/local road system) and national debt. All the while bitching about subsidies to public transportation system while we fail to recognize the massive subsidy to personal transportation that comes in the form of a publicly built, maintained, and policed road network.
Take the red pill, and maybe you'll recognize that the "liberal tax economy" is nothing more than us forcing the American people to recognize the true cost of the public goods that they rely on without understanding the costs.