1965 White House Highway Beautification Strategy Memos (July 30 – August 18)
August 1965 White House legislative strategy memos relating to highway beautification legislation.
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August 1965 White House legislative strategy memos relating to highway beautification legislation.
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July 22, 2015 – Section 80003 of the Senate DRIVE Act now provides for a clean and complete shutoff of all new HTF obligations (except for administrative overhead, safety activities, and items exempt from obligation limitation) that is predicted to take effect on October 1, 2018. The idea is that this will force Congress to provide a huge tranche of new money for the HTF halfway through the bill while continuing to fund the policies and promises made by the bill.
Such “trigger” or “re-opener” provisions are not new to surface transportation legislations. Let’s take a walk down memory lane over the last 25 years…
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In a recent article published in Innovation NewsBrief entitled “A Conservative Vision for the Future of the Highway Trust Fund,” Ken Orski shared heartening data, indicating that the states are stepping up to fill the transportation funding gap left by a stagnated federal program. According to Mr. Orski, several states…
By Jeff Davis
July 10, 2015 With the Highway Trust Fund set to expire three weeks from today on July 31, 2015, the Washington Post has published an opinion piece detailing how a celebrated conservative President used a conservative argument to get Congress to do something unexpected but necessary — raise the gas tax. Read…
A series of three late November 1982 memos from DOT and OMB trying to refute the arguments that each agency made to President Reagan in the final Cabinet meetings to determine whether or not the…
February 1993 memo to President Clinton from his chief economic adviser giving the pros and cons of various types of new energy taxation. The memo framed the decision to request a BTU tax, which was…
Nossaman transportation policy expert Edward Kussy and rail veteran Kevin Sheys assess the relative merits of the federal transportation funding proposal in the Eno Center for Transportation Report “The Life and Death of the Highway Trust Fund.” This is a brief commentary on the Eno Center For Transportation’s excellent report…
Internal White House summary of a proposed “New Federalism” initiative for President Reagan, dated January 1982, which would have turned back significant highway and mass transit spending (and their dedicated excise tax revenues) back to…
How many politicians does it take to make people pay attention to our infrastructure problem?
By Jeff Davis
April 2, 2015 – The failure of the oil windfall profits tax of 1980 shows how dangerous it can be to tie federal trust fund receipt levels to volatile commodity prices.
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