That is, taxpayers in Nashville and St. Louis paid that much to build new stadiums for their football teams. Those figures don't include federal tax breaks that benefit sports team owners. With more and more people becoming wealthy through entrepreneurship and investing, federal estate taxes will hit a much larger portion of the population in the future, USA Today reported late last month. According to a study by the Social Welfare Research Institute at Boston College, the number of people hit by the estate tax could shoot from 23,215 in 1990 to more than 100,000 by 2017, which would amount to five percent of all deaths. State and local governments are increasingly turning to toll booths to finance road construction, a move that allows them to go without federal aid and the regulations that come with it, USA Today reported last week.
Toll roads save governments time and money, and they come with fewer restrictions.
Toll roads stretch over 5,000 miles of the United States and make up 6 percent of the U.S. interstate highway system. Additional years of teaching experience do not payoff in better student performance, concludes a recent study from the Hudson Institute and the Education Intelligence Agency. But most teachers, being unionized, have their compensation tied to experience rather than performance. Students in Texas and California who had teachers with 11 to 24 years of experience appeared to perform better than their counterparts who had teachers with fewer than 11 years of experience. But students taught by teachers with 25 or more years of experience did not experience the same benefits.