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Originally Posted by electricron
Excellent points you made.
The top line was 109 billion euros, which is $134 billion.
Sorry I mislead the web page that badly. I thought the top line was the total last night, but it's not. But at least I did provide a link so you can check it out....and point out my error.
Adding up all the lines listed on my link does not come close to your number, only to ~ 290 billion Euros, which converts to $357 billion. Where did you find the 424 billion Euro number?
But the point that France collects and distributes tax revenues differently than the USA is true. But California does not have to finance national defense nor national society security retirement benefits - which consumes a major part of the USA's budget. So not only do the two countries collect revenues differently, they also allocate the revenues differently.
Which, to keep this reply on topic, should bring us back to the question on how France finances HSR projects? Does it have a budget and is it expected to keep to it? Has it ever faced 200% cost overruns? How close operationally is it at making a profit?
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Add up all the lines and you get 424365 (424 billion):
108834
70012
42098
40591
26949
19515
18345
17845
15458
10861
9620
8543
6308
3436
3346
3106
2912
2605
2537
2067
1880
1465
1266
1098
991
729
706
649
569
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As to your other questions. I'm no expert on French government operations. I just don't enjoy seeing people throwing out fake numbers all the time.
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