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MI HR0279
Resolution
Status
5/6/2010
Primary Sponsor
Rick Jones
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AI Summary
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Calls on all 50 states and their congressional delegations to question the federal government's constitutional authority to collect federal gas taxes and require matching state funds for redistribution.
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States that Michigan receives only 87-92 percent of the federal transportation funds it generates through gas tax contributions, effectively subsidizing other states' transportation projects.
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Proposes that 99 percent of federal gas tax revenue collected in each state remain in that state, with only 1 percent designated for maintaining federal highways in less-populated states.
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Notes that only 60 percent of federal fuel taxes currently go to roads and cites 7,000 earmarks in the 2005 transportation reauthorization bill as evidence of wasteful spending.
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Directs copies of the resolution to be sent to the President, Speaker of the House, Michigan's congressional delegation, and all state governors.
Legislative Description
A resolution calling on all fifty states and their congressional delegations to question the authority of the federal government, under the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, to collect a federal gas tax from each state and then hold the dollars hostage by requiring each state to provide matching funds to receive those dollars back and memorialize Congress to reconfigure the distribution of transportation money to the states.
federal gas tax
Last Action
Referred To Committee On Transportation
5/6/2010