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The federal government pays for roughly 40 percent of national transportation spending, but gas tax receipts have not kept pace with the growth of the economy, rising construction costs or the demands of an aging system after adjusting for inflation. Without changes, the highway account of the gas-tax-dependent national Highway Trust Fund is expected to hit empty in 2009.
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