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DON'T DOUBLE DIP IN DRIVERS' POCKETS TO PAY FOR ROADS By The Hill Jim Burg and David Congdon Infrastructure investment is a rare Beltway issue where both sides can find common ground. America's roads, bridges, pipes and ports need sustainable funding to support a modern economy. And while we agree with Secretary LaHood and Governor Rendell's call-to-action we vehemently disagree with their policy prescription. The call for "eliminating federal restrictions on tolling interstate highways," is deeply misguided. Nationwide tolling, which would impose an additional tax on the 70 percent of goods moved by trucks, would be a disaster for the economy. The American Trucking Associations recognizes that new revenue sources must be found to address the backlog of road and bridge projects. That's why we've signed on as the co-chairmen of the newly formed Infrastructure Funding Task Force which is committed to exploring many options to find a long-term financing solution that will address our nation's transportation needs. There is no single cure-all for transportation funding, but tolling existing interstates may create problems worse than the disease it seeks to treat. America's interstates were built using tax revenue, and fuel taxes have paid to maintain them since. Any new toll is double taxation. Since the inception of the Federal Interstate Highway System, the federal gas tax has always been the primary source of revenue for the construction and maintenance of federal interstate lanes. Every time a motorist puts gas in his vehicle, he is paying his or her share for interstate maintenance. A new toll on an existing interstate forces a motorist to pay two taxes for that same road: a gas tax and a toll tax. Costs will go up throughout the entire supply chain, as logistics companies and retailers are forced to pass the higher cost of doing business onto customers. Furthermore, tolls will force truck drivers and motorists to use secondary roads to avoid

The Alliance for Toll-Free Interstates (ATFI) is a growing alliance of individuals, businesses and organizations advocating for long-term, sustainable, efficient, equitable, and sensible highway infrastructure funding solutions. ATFI applauds the renewed public emphasis on infrastructure funding coming from the Trump Administration and Congress. Implemented properly, infrastructure funding can provide meaningful employment opportunities to those individuals and communities that need it the most, while also modernizing the transportation system to improve the free flow of people and goods throughout the country. At the same time, poorly conceived infrastructure legislation can be counter-productive, limiting benefits to certain densely populated areas and companies looking for a lighter tax bill.

The biggest quibble-and it is one worth north of a trillion dollars- these interest groups have is with how the plan will be paid for. They are highly critical of the mere $200 billion in direct federal investment in all (not just for highways) the president contends is sufficient to stoke the spending of another $1.3 trillion or more in public (including state and local funds) and private investments to improve all of America's infrastructure.

Do You Like Paying Tolls? You're Gonna Love Trump's Infrastructure Plan ATFI is about the impacts that tolls on interstate highways has on our communities & businesses. Provides details on why interstate highway tolls not solving transportation needs and to fight interstate tolls with toll free system.

"If [President] Trump relies on the private sector and forcing states and localities to come up with their own funding, [his] infrastructure plan could result in a patchwork of tolls that span coast to coast," noted Stephanie Kane, spokesperson for the Alliance for Toll-Free Interstates, in a statement.

Following the leak of the draft Trump White House infrastructure plan, the Alliance for Toll-Free Interstates issued the following statement, which can be attributed to spokesperson Stephanie Kane: "The leaked Trump infrastructure plan is a complete reversal of President Trump's commitment to putting America First. Although then-candidate Trump campaigned against lining the pockets of Wall Street and promised to be the voice for the working class, this plan does the opposite. President Trump is choosing Wall Street over Main Street. It would take money from hardworking Americans and give huge profits to toll road investors - many of which are foreign companies.

ATFI STATEMENT: TO MAXIMIZE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT, AVOID TOLLS

When Trump says "investors will be encouraged to invest billions," he means "Wall Street profits will be in the billions from tolling everyday Americans." http://www.tollfreeinterstates.com/news/atfi-statement-trump%E2%80%99s-closing-remarks-infrastructure-week

A group that is decidedly opposed to interstate tolling, the Alliance for Toll-Free Interstates (ATFI), has applauded the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for proposing a multi-year highway funding bill, the "Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2015," before the October 29 expiration of surface transportation programs across the nation.

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ATFI is about the impacts that tolls on interstate highways has on our communities & businesses. Provides details on why interstate highway tolls not solving transportation needs and to fight interstate tolls with toll free system.

ATFI is about the impacts that tolls on interstate highways has on our communities & businesses. Provides details on why interstate highway tolls not solving transportation needs and to fight interstate tolls with toll free system.

ATFI is about the impacts that tolls on interstate highways has on our communities & businesses. Provides details on why interstate highway tolls not solving transportation needs and to fight interstate tolls with toll free system.

ATFI is about the impacts that tolls on interstate highways has on our communities & businesses. Provides details on why interstate highway tolls not solving transportation needs and to fight interstate tolls with toll free system.

Our interstate system has facilitated an unrestricted supply chain of goods, services and people efficiently for the better part of 50 years. These freeways are indispensable infrastructure for every aspect of our economy, and critical for our competitiveness and quality of life. However, the state has no long-term plan for how to comprehensively fund maintenance and improvements.

Our interstate system has facilitated an unrestricted supply chain of goods, services and people quickly and efficiently for the better part of 50 years. Interstates are indispensable infrastructure for every aspect of our economy, and critical for our competitiveness. For the general citizenry, these freeways determine quality of life. However, the state has no long-term plan for how to comprehensively fund maintenance and improvements.

"PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - Thursday marks six months since Gov. Gina Raimondo signed into law RhodeWorks, her proposal for a surge of infrastructure projects funded in part by a new toll on trucks." http://www.tollfreeinterstates.com/news/6-updates-rhodeworks-truck-toll-law-6-months-after-it-passed

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DON'T BELIEVE THE TOLLING LOBBY; TOLLS DON'T WORK "Wisconsin faces many challenges in the years ahead, challenges that require thoughtful and sustainable solutions. One area often overlooked is our state's infrastructure. According to TRIP, a national transportation research group, poor and unsafe roads and bridges cost Wisconsin motorists a total of $6 billion per year, more than $2,000 per driver."

Crumbling roads are top of mind for policymakers, who are at the same time considering how to prevent the Highway Trust Fund, which supports infrastructure maintenance and repair, from going broke. As the government considers different options--raising the federal fuel excise tax, imposing user fees--a new business coalition is arguing that it should outright reject one potential source of funding: expanding tolling on existing interstate lanes.