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| Report finds truckers fund entire I-80 budget in PA
Report finds truckers fund entire I-80 budget in PA
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A coalition of business leaders in Pennsylvania says tolls on I-80 in Pennsylvania would drive up costs, force truckers onto secondary roads, and do more harm than good to the state’s fragile economy.
The report, titled “I-80 Tolling Impact Study,” prepared for and funded by the No Tolls on I-80 Coalition, shows that fuel taxes from trucks and cars more than pay for the operation and maintenance of I-80 and, therefore, the proposal to toll the interstate is not necessary.
Report author Tracy Miller, an associate professor of economics at Grove City College, stated in the document released Monday, Oct. 12, that truckers paid more than $90 million in taxes and user fees to use I-80 in 2006. That number was greater than the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s annual budget of $80 million to operate and maintain the highway.
Add to that the $40 million generated by cars and light trucks, and it gives Pennsylvania $130 million to maintain an $80 million operations budget for I-80.
“Since users of Interstate 80 already pay the costs of maintaining the highway through fuel and other road use taxes, there is no good reason why they should pay an additional tax via tolls,” Miller wrote.
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