While the Highway Trust Fund is used to support highway infrastructure across the country, more than twenty-eight percent of these funds are currently diverted away from roads and bridges. This coalition letter from thirty-six groups calls on reforms to fix an outdated and misused funding mechanism, rather than simply increasing consumer taxes at the […]
The Hill: With Highway Funding in Decline, Mileage-Based Fees Offer a Solution
Most Americans don’t need to be reminded of the deteriorating condition of America’s roads and highways — it’s a daily reality on their commute to work, run to the store, or drive to school. The U.S. had an $836 billion backlog of highway and bridge capital needs in 2017 and, in some states, nearly 3 […]
White Paper Calls on Congress to Establish a Pilot Program to Study the Use of Vehicle Miles Traveled Fees
The Pilot Would Study the Feasibility of Replacing Federal Fuel Taxes WASHINGTON, D.C., January 30, 2019 – The American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research (ACI) released today a ConsumerGram that analyzes the use of an alternative funding mechanism for the Highway Trust Fund. America’s roads and highways are becoming increasingly congested and structurally deficient. […]
A Better Way to Finance the Highway Trust Fund
ACI joins a coalition of think tanks in calling for Congress to restore the longstanding users-pay/users-benefit principle that would better support the Highway Trust Fund and related infrastructure projects. You can read the letter here.
