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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
They're called gasoline taxes, and license and registration fees
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Which one of those taxes is collected by the municipal government? AFAIK, gasoline taxes are federal and provincial, and licensing and registration is provincial. The bulk of the money spent to build and maintain roads in Calgary comes from the municipal government, so I'm paying just as much as anyone else for them even though I don't use them.
IIRC, Calgary Transit must make 60% of its annual operating budget back from user fees. The other 40% is subsidized by taxpayers, whether they use transit or not. On the other hand, 100% of the municipal roads budget is covered by the taxpayers.