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Re:Why American Phone, Cable and Internet Bills are so High by twoodfin on Monday September 24, 2012 @01:12PM (#4565746)
Where do you get that figure? Does "ground transportation" include rail?

Wikipedia saith that, as of 2007, 93.5% of the Federal contribution to the Interstate Highway System was funded by gas and vehicle taxes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highways#Financing

And it notes that 1/6th of gas taxes and other user fee-like financing mechanisms are diverted toward public transit.

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Re:Why American Phone, Cable and Internet Bills are so High by nowarninglabel on Monday September 24, 2012 @10:10PM (#4568154)
Sorry for not looping back earlier, it's from http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/united_states_total_spen... which is getting its data from a few sources but I think for the transportation piece you can look on page 125 here http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BUDGET-2012-BUD/pdf/BUDGET-2012... but may want to cross-reference with the other sources.
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Re:Why American Phone, Cable and Internet Bills are so High by bduerst on Monday September 24, 2012 @01:36PM (#4565898)
You both could be right.
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