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Analysis: Va. looks to user fee-alternatives for highway funding

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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s controversial proposal to scrap the state gas tax in favor of a dedicated hike in the sales tax has the legislature on the verge of passing a transportation funding bill for the first time in more than a dozen years. Reports from the state capitol in Richmond Wednesday indicated both House and Senate negotiators had agreed on a compromise that involved replacing the gas tax with a 3.5 percent tax on wholesale gasoline, raising the sales tax 0.3 percent...

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