Show Liquid cc Gold o for or Tax ax Collectors I Federal and state motor fuel taxes are generating revenue at the rate of one million dollars an hour during 1969 This will total close to 9 billion more than the revenue derived from 1 I any other commodity During the past half-century half federal and state taxes from I this source totaled more than billion billion about about the same as the total expenditures of the federal government from its establishment establishment I in 1789 through 1936 i i People called the gasoline tax a painless penny penny when it was first levied 50 years ago in Oregon for highway construction construction construction tion but today it is neither painless nor a penny |