America Spends $7.3 Billion a Year Paying Affluent People to Drive to Work

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By Angie SchmittSep 14, 2017, 3:04 pm147 pts
Every day, the streets of American cities are more clogged and polluted at rush hour because the federal government pays people to drive to work. The culprit is the commuter tax benefit, a $7.3 billion annual subsidy that mainly offsets parking costs for people who drive to work. The people who benefit the most…

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