Many transportation policies indirectly affect vehicle travel and resulting externalities by inducing changes in …

federal policy makers who historically have relied on motor vehicle fuel excise taxes to fund highway projects. This paper …

Pigouvian taxes and user fees can address environmental externalities and efficiently fund transportation … consequences of the gasoline tax, bus and light rail charges and a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax. Gas taxes have become more … gas taxes declines with expenditures much less than the share of income spent on gas taxes declines with income. Replacing …

transportation and energy taxes than liberal areas, heterogeneity in the response to economic burdens has important implications for …In 2018, California voters rejected Proposition 6, a ballot initiative that sought to repeal state gasoline taxes and … the popular support for environmental taxes and the ongoing policy debate about how to finance future road infrastructure …

may suggest that it is irrelevant for aggregate welfare whether output is restricted via corrective taxes or limiting … consumption, PH leads to substantially lower consumer welfare (and government revenue) compared to excise, sales or Ramsey taxes … volumetric or ethanol-based taxes could reduce consumption by over 9% without reducing consumer surplus, and increase tax …

transportation, and counterfactual policies. We show that the air pollution emissions per mile of new US vehicles has fallen …

analyses of externality correcting taxes. That this comparison might matter is somewhat of a "blind spot" in most economic … analyses, for it plays virtually no role when economists recommend taxes to internalize externalities. A simple model … Pigouvian type taxes. The analysis also shows intuitive results about how the ratio is increasing in the marginal external costs …

-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality. Using a political-economy model where parties bargain over taxes and … determination, in particular budget rules, make the status quo levels of taxes and entitlements difficult to change. The second one …