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Showing posts with label Highway User Revenue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Highway User Revenue. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Steve Kelly – Gazette: Miller wants to ensure gas tax revenue would go to transportation projects

Miller wants to ensure gas tax revenue would go to transportation projects


Some say constitutional amendment is stronger, hands-off measure

By Steve Kelly, Staff Writer Friday, November 18, 2011

Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller said last week that he favors a super-majority vote in the legislature to transfer transportation money to other uses rather than a constitutional amendment that would keep the money off limits for other purposes.

The issue surfaced recently with talk of a possible gas tax increase to fund transportation projects, which the General Assembly could address in its upcoming session.

Transportation advocates and some business leaders have said they could support a gas tax increase to bolster the state’s depleted Transportation Trust Fund, but with the provision that a firewall be erected so the money only could be used for needed transportation infrastructure projects… http://www.gazette.net/article/20111118/NEWS/711189662/miller-wants-provision-to-ensure-gas-tax-revenue-would-go-to&template=gazette

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MML: Restoring Highway User Revenue :60

MML: Restoring Highway User Revenue :60


Watch this :60 PSA to find out how you can join Maryland's municipal officials in making sure our Governor and state legislators know how important it is to return Highway User Revenue to our cities and towns. ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qjCafZub2MA

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