Re: when 70% of drivers are banned from the road

Free Lunch <lunch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> Trucks pay for a share of the road through taxes or tolls, but they do
> have to share with others. Rail has decided that they don't want to
> share, except through contract, so they have to pay for their own
> dedicated routes.

What a completely bizarre way to think of it...  It's not like the
trucking companies actually _built_ anything, the _government_ built,
and maintains, the highways, the trucks just take advantage of them.

The common complaint (I have no idea whether it's true) is that the
trucking companies in fact _don't_ "pay their share" -- though they pay
various taxes and fees, those are nowhere near enough to compensate for
the wear caused by trucks, so in effect, government highway subsidies
also (and particularly) subsidize trucking companies.

Rail ****pping companies, to the best of my knowledge, receive no subsidy
at all from the government, and of course pay taxes on their huge
infrastructure.

-Miles

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