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Autore |
Crane Keith <1953-> |
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Titolo |
The option of an oil tax to fund transportation and infrastructure / / Keith Crane, Nicholas Burger, Martin Wachs |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Santa Monica, CA, : RAND, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-13581-7 |
9786613135810 |
0-8330-5183-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (48 p.) |
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Collana |
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Occasional paper The option of an oil tax to fund transportation and infrastructure |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BurgerNicholas |
WachsMartin |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Petroleum - Taxation - Economic aspects - United States |
Transportation - Finance |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Section 1: Introduction; Section 2: Why Tax Oil?; Gasoline and Diesel Taxes Are Insufficient to Pay for Roads; Legislators Have Been Unwilling to Raise Gasoline and Diesel Taxes; Design and Benefits of a Tax on Oil; Section 3: How Much Might Oil Be Taxed?; Revenue Needs; Externalities; Damage to the Environment; Costs of Defending Foreign Sources of Oil and Transit; Monopsony Premium; A Potential Tax Rate for Oil; Section 4: Who Would Pay the Tax? |
Distribution of the Tax Among Consumers, Refiners, and Domestic and Foreign ProducersDistributional Effects of an Oil Tax; Implications That the Proposed Tax Could Have for Transportation Appropriations; Link the Tax to the Highway Trust Fund; Apportion the Revenue According to Its Use; Abandon the Trust Fund in Favor of General-Fund Financing; Implementation; Setting the Tax; Phasing In the Tax; Conclusion; Appendix: Gasoline Prices and Federal Tax History, 1949-2008; Bibliography |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Federal spending on surface-transportation infrastructure outpaces |
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