DIVIDING THE FEDERAL PIE

This year (1997) Congress will draft legislation to authorize more than $120 million in federal spending for highways, transit, and other surface transportation programs for the next six years. A critical issue is how to divide among the fifty states the Federal Highway Trust Fund revenues, which come from federal gasoline taxes and other transportation-related taxes. For the past forty years, apportioning trust fund revenues has been analogous to dividing a transportation pie among the states. With the Interstate highway program completed, Congress must now determine how much each state should receive from the trust fund, compared to what it pays in.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of California Transportation Center (UCTC)

  University of California, Berkeley
  2614 Dwight Way, 2nd Floor
  Berkeley, CA  United States  94720-1782
• Authors:
  • Lem, L L
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 10-14
• Serial:
  • Access
  • Issue Number: 10
  • Publisher: University of California Transportation Center (UCTC)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Gasoline; Legislation; States; Taxation
• Identifier Terms: Highway Trust Fund; United States Congress
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Law; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00738510
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 21 1997 12:00AM