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Poll: Economic benefits of good highways, railroads, airports outweigh cost to taxpayers

Americans have a wide range of preferences on how to pay for infrastructure improvements.

A new poll finds six in 10 Americans think the economic benefits of good highways, railroads and airports outweigh the cost to taxpayers.

At the same time though, the Associated Press-GfK poll finds scant support for some of the most frequently discussed options for paying for construction of new roads or the upkeep of existing ones.

Fifty-eight percent of those surveyed oppose raising federal gasoline taxes.

And by a better than 2-to-1 margin, Americans oppose having private companies fund construction in exchange for toll fees.

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