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…
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