Excerpt from Innovative Financing of Infrastructure Investment; The Use of Tax-Exempt Bonds: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Economic Development of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, June 30, 1994 Unlike corporate debt issues, the interest received by holders of state and local governmental bonds. Also known as municipal bonds, is exempt from federal income taxes and may also by exempt from state and local income taxes. Consequently, investors will accept a lower interest rate on tax-exempt Issues because they Will not have to pay taxes on them This lower rate reduces borrowmg costs for state and local governments which use tax-exempt bonds to raise capital to build roads, bridges, airports, mass transit facilities= public power facilities and schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.