Green Taxes

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

It makes reimbursements, states have to pony up the money. States have to ask for it in the form of vouchers which are submitted to the feds. It no way covers the small state roads and bridges.

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06572t.pdf

Most of it goes to Federal Highways, some of it to mass transit. But by and large road projects are funded in each state by a majority of State funds, not federal dollars, unless it is a Federal highway.

Nope.

The Highway Trust Fund revenue is dedicated to the Interstate Highway System and "certain other roads" (and mass transit).

Those "certain other roads" being those roads/highways (and bridges) in the National Highway System. The Interstate makes up about 30% of the NHS...the bulk of the System are roads/highways (many two lane highways) administered by the states and eligible for federal funding from the Trust Fund.

Overall, the NHS include only about 4 percent of the nation's roads, but they carry more than 40 percent of all highway traffic, 75 percent of heavy truck traffic, and 90 percent of tourist traffic.....ie these are critical to the nation's economy.