Earl Warren's Fight for California's Freeways: Setting a Path for the Nation

Mitchell, Daniel J. B.

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“…The bill was both forward thinking and philosophically grounded in its efforts to restructure the finance system. However, because both the tax increase and the shift in cost burdens would be significantly substantial, the bill predictably generated intense hostility from two political constituencies: (a) the petroleum industry and automobile clubs opposed the large fuel tax increases, and (b) the trucking industry opposed the higher diesel and new ton-mile taxes (23). The ability of these important constituencies to defeat SB 5 is a powerful lesson that "winners" in any existing public finance schema, no matter how unjustified, will fight hard, and often effectively, to avoid losing their favored status.…”

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“…The senate proved to be in no hurry to consider the assembly's amended legislation. But the newspapers, the automobile clubs, and Governor Warren generated constant pressure to produce some sort of legislation, and Warren had taken the case over the legislators' heads to the public through radio addresses and lobbying by his appointees (23). In response, a joint committee of five members from each house was formed to produce compromise legislation (19,24).…”

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“…In 1956, the U.S. Congress made tax increase and trust fund decisions very similar to those made in California nearly a decade earlier (23,(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38). Collier-Burns provided a template for the 1956 federal legislation in that fuel taxes, rather than general revenues or tolls, would fund the system.…”

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Negotiating a Financial Package for Freeways: How California’s Collier–Burns Highway Act Helped Pave the Way for the Era of the American Interstate Highway

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With the Collier–Burns Highway Act of 1947, California pioneered a new system of highway finance. In response to estimates of enormous highway needs in the postwar period, the state planned substantial increases in funding. The key debate was about who would pay what share. Legislators planned a significant increase in the motor fuel tax and a shift of more of the tax burden onto heavy vehicles, which inflicted most damage to roads. However, the proposal met with intense opposition from motorist groups, oil companies, and truckers. California eventually passed legislation that established the first-ever trust fund dedicating highway user tax revenue to roads, a law that was later copied widely, including by Congress in 1956, when the Interstate system was funded. The trucking industry in California defeated proposals to require it to shoulder more of the financial burden; this outcome too would be repeated elsewhere, including at the federal level. Finally, the inclusion of urban freeways eased the California legislation’s passage, and this provision also became a key element of the federal Interstate legislation. Thus, the legacy of Collier–Burns reaches well beyond California to influence transportation and public finance across the United States to the present day.

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“…A tremendous battle was fought between Governor Earl Warren, who was responsible for the freeway bill, and oil companies who didn't want gasoline to be taxed to pay for it. Organized labor was not a player (Mitchell 2006).…”

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In January, 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed a state universal health care plan modeled after the Massachusetts individual mandate program. A year later, the plan was dead. Although some key interest groups eventually backed the plan, it was overwhelmed by a looming state budget crisis and a lack of gubernatorial focus. Although much acclaimed for his stance on greenhouse gases, stem cells, hydrogen highways, and other Big Ideas, diffused gubernatorial priorities and a failure to resolve California's chronic fiscal difficulties let the clock run out on universal health care.In the past, health care reform was always dead on arrival. But this year I can feel something different in the air. I can feel the energy, the momentum, the desire for action . . . You can feel the time is right . . . California is going to lead the nation in breaking new ground to meet the health care needs of its people.

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Earl Warren's Fight for California's Freeways: Setting a Path for the Nation

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