FabSwingers.com forum: American Infrastructure

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Interested to know how/who pays for it. , would it mean tax increases to repair the roads, bridges, tunnels etc?

Reply privately

Reply in forum

Reply +quote

By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That is a complex question to answer.

Aside from Federal infrastructure like the interstate system must infrastructure is funded at a local level. Even then there will be contributions from the different levels of government.

So when I lived in the US various taxes like property tax or a levy on house sales paid towards specific things like metro extensions.

In the US there is also a long history of using bonds to raise private money for infrastructure.

Part of the issue in the US is that there is no overall plan as each local area does its own thing and that may no be renewing the infrastructure most in need.

Reply privately

Reply in forum

Reply +quote

By *unnyPairCouple
over a year ago

Seminole

As each state has different tax laws, it would be impossible to answer this without breaking down each and every state. That said, anything from sales tax, to state income tax, to vehicle tax, to lotteries can contribute to state roads, whereas federal taxes go into a pool to upkeep interstate highways and airports. Parks are either national parks, like Yellowstone or Grand Canyon, or state parks and the funding works the same.

Somewhere in all of it, a state representative is in DC lobbying for federal funds to assist in his or her state’s infrastructure.

Reply privately

Reply in forum

Reply +quote

By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Property tax

Petrol tax

Personal right to work tax

Rain tax

State tax

Car tax

School tax

Sewer tax

Local tax

Federal tax

Just to name a few.

Reply privately

Reply in forum

Reply +quote

By *akjourneyMan
over a year ago

WSM

The only thing in common across most of the country is the state of disrepair of much of the infrastructure.

This will not get better anytime soon I suspect.

Reply privately

Reply in forum

Reply +quote

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"The only thing in common across most of the country is the state of disrepair of much of the infrastructure.

This will not get better anytime soon I suspect."

Thats what I was thinking, local areas fixing their own, with perhaps national funding help for areas with more expensive infrastructure in their boundaries and more urgent repairs,

Is the problem becoming a crisis yet?

Reply privately

Reply in forum

Reply +quote

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"As each state has different tax laws, it would be impossible to answer this without breaking down each and every state. That said, anything from sales tax, to state income tax, to vehicle tax, to lotteries can contribute to state roads, whereas federal taxes go into a pool to upkeep interstate highways and airports. Parks are either national parks, like Yellowstone or Grand Canyon, or state parks and the funding works the same.

Somewhere in all of it, a state representative is in DC lobbying for federal funds to assist in his or her state’s infrastructure.

Ah right, thanks for that

Reply privately

Reply in forum

Reply +quote

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"That is a complex question to answer.

Aside from Federal infrastructure like the interstate system must infrastructure is funded at a local level. Even then there will be contributions from the different levels of government.

So when I lived in the US various taxes like property tax or a levy on house sales paid towards specific things like metro extensions.

In the US there is also a long history of using bonds to raise private money for infrastructure.

Part of the issue in the US is that there is no overall plan as each local area does its own thing and that may no be renewing the infrastructure most in need.

Reply privately

Reply in forum

Reply +quote

Post new Message to Thread