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Ask the Rambler: When Did the Federal Government Begin Collecting the Gas Tax?



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  • Alternative Title:
    When Did the Federal Government Begin Collecting the Gas Tax?
  • Creators:
    The Rambler
  • Corporate Creators:
    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
  • Contributors:
    Weingroff, Richard F.
  • Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Series:
    FHWA Highway History Website Articles
  • Resource Type:
    Web Document
  • Right Statement:
    Public Domain
  • Geographical Coverage:
    United States
  • Edition:
    The Rambler
  • Corporate Publisher:
    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
  • Abstract:
    President Hoover signed the first Federal gas tax into law, so that's where the story begins. From the start, the Federal gas tax has been under attack, initially from the highway lobby. The opponents remained opposed to the excise tax on gasoline and other automotive products through the early 1950s, but the allure of the Interstate System quieted the critics. In recent years, the Federal gas tax has been attacked by Governors and Members of Congress who wanted to "devolve" the tax, along with the Federal-aid highway program, to the States. Increases in the Federal tax have been proposed regularly in recent years as well, sometimes by organizations within the highway lobby, sometimes by Members of Congress who see it as a source of revenue for general government needs.
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    The original format of this document was an active HTML page(s) located under https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/history.cfm. The Federal Highway Administration converted the HTML page(s) into an Adobe® Acrobat® PDF file to preserve and support reuse of the information it contained. The intellectual content of this PDF is an authentic capture of the original HTML file. Hyperlinks and other functions of the HTML webpage may have been lost, and this version of the content may not fully work with screen reading software.
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