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- From: wcarroll@encore.com (William Carroll)
- Subject: Re: Roads and Taxes (was Re: NEWS: True Costs of )
- Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:41:31 GMT
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- jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
- >I'll be glad to discuss your "fair share" when you do your research
- >sufficiently so that you can talk with some intelligence as to where
- >highway tax money comes and goes.
-
- Well, I posted this not long ago, but I'll repeat it for John's sake:
-
-
- A quick check of the 1990 Statistical Abtract of the US yields the
- following data: (all numbers in millions)
-
- 1987 total receipts for highways $65,702
- 1987 total disbursements for highways 65,793
-
- 1987 gas tax reciepts, state and federal 24,926
-
- 1987 Federal highway trust fund reciepts 14,300
- 1987 Federal highway trust fund disbursements 13,500
- 1987 Federal highway trust fund balance 13,600
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- 1987 was the most recent year for which they had numbers in all categories.
-
- The first three lines were from two tables about no. 1020. The trust fund
- numbers were from table no. 501.
-
-
- What else would you like? I'm willing to walk down the hall to see if
- its in the book.
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-
- --
- William R. Carroll (Encore Computer, Ft. Lauderdale FL) wcarroll@encore.com
-
- "We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form
- up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that
- we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method
- it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion,
- inefficiency, and demoralization." -Petronius Arbiter, 210 BC(?)
-