AZ SCM1006

Urges U.S. Congress to enact legislation allowing states to opt out of the federal highway transportation system or to end the federal highway program entirely.

Argues the current federal highway funding system is inequitable, with some states ("donor" states) subsidizing road needs of other states ("donee" states) through complex distribution formulas despite the interstate highway project being completed in the early 1980s.

Notes that less than two-thirds of Highway Trust Fund monies collected goes to transportation projects, with remainder directed to congressionally earmarked projects benefiting only local constituencies.

States that surface transportation problems are primarily local and regional in nature, better addressed by state and local governments which already outspend the federal government on transportation by a ratio of two to one.

Contends the federal government uses highway funding as leverage to force unwanted mandates on states and that the federal highway system faces insolvency with diminishing future revenues.