| State |
Hawaii |
| State and Local Transportation Tax Revenue |
$553,374,000 |
| Amount Covered by General Taxes and Fees |
($124,808,237) |
| State Share of Highway Spending |
$428,565,763 |
Table 3. Minimum Amount of State Highway Spending Funded by General State Taxes and Fees, Fiscal Year 2017 -- Hawaii collects $125M MORE than it spends #1 in USA
Who Will Pay for the Roads?
by Ulrik Boesen, Tax Foundation, August 25, 2020 (excerpt)
...Almost every state spends more on highways than they collect in dedicated revenue from federal, state, and local sources. The only exceptions are Hawaii, Idaho, and Tennessee. That means the rest of the expenditures are covered by non-transportation-related tax revenues (see Table 3) collected from people who may not use the roads, or activity not related to road use.…
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Background:
- Sept, 2014: Hawaii $90K 'Administrative Cost' Per Mile of State Roads
- May, 2015: While Pushing Rail, State Fails to Use $820M in Federal Highway Funds
- Sept, 2015: Rep Mark Takai says highway spending would benefit rail
- Sept, 2015: Takai sent a letter Thursday to Gregory Nadeau, acting administrator for the Federal Highway Administration, asking him to consider working with the state DOT to make the Farrington and Kamehameha highways reconstruction projects eligible for federal assistance.
- July, 2016: Sitting on Unspent $540M, State DoT to Shut Down New Road Building in Gambit for Massive Tax Hike
- July, 2016: DoT Road Priority Blackmail not Blacktop
- August, 2016: Ige Doubles Down on Transportation Tax Blackmail
- August, 2016: $4M for DoT to Study Ways to Raise Highway Taxes
- Sept 2016: Feds: $540M in Highway Funds can be spent on Rail
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