Highways Paved With Gold
July 31, 2008By Andrew Bielak
Slate’s Daniel Gross notes that while anti-transit advocates habitually decry government funding of public transportation, they gloss over the billions in subsidies provided for highways.
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August 1st, 2008 3:05 am
Um… the author of that article admitted he misread the figures and exaggerated the amount spent on highways by 1200%. I really don’t think that deductions for work vehicles comes anywhere near the amount spent directly on mass transit. Besides which, the majority of drivers in this country do not drive a company car… sorry.