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• One guest on the Dylan Ratigan Show on MSNBC suggests using infrastructure to get the U.S. economy back on its feet. The video is above.
• The city of Chicago may be moving toward a congestion pricing policy for cars. (Tribune)
• Some states are seeing their economies grow with automobile battery manufacturing plants. (NYT)
• Brookings expert Chris Leinberger takes on Joel Kotkin’s pro-suburbs position and argues for walkable spaces in cities. (Brookings)
• BP has not learned any lessons from the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster, a Washington Post investigation finds. (WashPost)
• An article finds that the gas tax is at one of the lowest points in U.S. history, while an editorial argues for raising it (a position we heartily agree with). (USAToday) (WashPost)
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Tags: Economic Recovery, gas tax
Is there a study – or easily comprehensible source – that breaks down the proportion of local income and property taxes that go to road costs? I’m wondering as most papers that discuss gas taxes make it sound as if the state and federal taxes cover all roads when they do not cover local expendatures.
I’m wondering how to figure a milage tax. If an average car gets 24 mpg and you have $0.48 cpg in taxes that comes out to two cents per mile. That seems low – especially if the costs of county/township/city mileage is not factored in. By figuring these into a user fee (mileage tax) we may be able to look at lowering property and local income taxes and make areas more ‘friendly’ tax-wise for development
@Matt: I’ve been looking for the same thing. I’ve only really seen what amounts to “position papers” on how we pay for our roads, but little in the way of hard stats. The federal numbers revenue seem to be easy enough to come by, but it’s not clear how the money gets divided up, whether to interstate, intrastate, county, or local infrastructure.