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Show ITOISTS' RIDING foSTSTHEMPLENTY !, g4 Cents of Dollar fGce3forRoadWork I wlorCv- C.-American mo-ft mo-ft S into state treasuries L than a billion dollars last year &e taxes, motor vehicle reg-fees reg-fees and motor carrier fces compiled by the bureau of Broads of the Department of tXe showed $169,344,000-16 L out of every dollar-was used Lhighway purposes. That was ljase of $22,202,000 over 1935. Lined state and federal al-Lu al-Lu tor highway purposes last t otaled $1.131.000.000 1 bureau f said. Federal contributions S, made up about $250,000,-i $250,000,-i of that amount. Us last year spent $585,616,000 state highway purposes. $265,-iMO $265,-iMO for local roads and streets, N42 000 for collection and admin-Un admin-Un and $1,597,000 for other Lav purposes, such as park and Lt roads. They had $8.346,0.00 undistributed state highway L i Criticiies States. L states derived $691,420,000 L gasoline taxes, $359,784,000 k registration fees and licenses I $15,137,000 from special taxes motor carriers last year, the bu-u bu-u said. bt bureau criticized states for I of automobile taxes for any pur-L pur-L other than road-building and jir.tenance. Any other use of the ds, the bureau said, "detracts serially from the upkeep of the jtways for which the motoring ;ic is paying." kn 1936," the bureau said, "al-jst "al-jst one-third as much was used (nonhighway purposes as was d for the building and mainte-fcce mainte-fcce of state highways." ( state taxes on highway users fjloyed for other than highway boses about $89,000,000 went to fieral state, county and municl-funds, municl-funds, $36,500,000 for relief of un-jjployment, un-jjployment, $33,000,000 was given Education and approximately $11,-K) $11,-K) for miscellaneous purposes, ! bureau said. New Jersey Penalized. tates are permitted under the Iden-Cartright act, by which con-sj con-sj made available federal funds state highway aid, to continue same proportion of diversion of hway funds for other purposes as is diverted in the year prior to .ct. flates are required to match fed-1 fed-1 highway allotments, dollar for iar. Recently the bureau deduct-($250,000 deduct-($250,000 from the federal allot-Int allot-Int to New Jersey because that Me used an excessive proportion state highway funds for relief rposes. fhe federal government collects roximately $150,000,000 a year fough a uniform 1-cent-a-gallon leral tax on gasoline. State gas-tie gas-tie taxes range from 2 cents a gal-) gal-) in the District of Columbia and lode Island to 7 cents a gallon in Irida, Louisiana and Tennessee. ?he weighted average for all Ites for state gasoline taxes is 3.83 Its a gallon. |
