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Originally Posted by gochujang
All those together add up to $68.25B. That's just a bit over 1% of annual federal spending.
Sometimes people forget that we are in fact the richest nation on Earth and we can pretty easily afford this kind of stuff.
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For a transit system in just one metro. Plus I don't think something like this would totally subsidized by the federal government but local and state taxes and bonds. The Bay Area is still pretty auto oriented unlike cities in Japan. I would never be without a car anywhere outside SF proper.