One more reason to support American gas taxes

May 6, 2008

in Economics, Law, Politics, The environment

One reason for which cutting gasoline taxes in the United States is especially unjustifiable is that the taxes don’t go into general revenue. Rather, they go into a Highway Trust Fund that pays for road construction and maintenance. Not only would cutting gasoline taxes encoruage people to use fuel inefficiently at a time of ever-greater scarcity: it would also shift the burden of paying for roads from those who use them most heavily towards the population as a whole.

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Milan 05.05.08 at 11:06 am

Federal Highway Trust Fund (United States)

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