Statewide transportation tax lacks votes, loses steam
March 4, 2008 at 11:36 am by Thomas Wheatley in NewsThe House’s statewide sales-tax transportation bill doesn’t have the votes to pass, says the chamber’s Transportation Chairman Vance Smith. InsiderAdvantage’s got the report here. Smith, a Republican state representative from Pine Mountain, says he’s reworked a proposal that sounds eerily similar to the state Senate’s proposal that would allow one or more counties to band together and let voters decide on a sales-tax increase. Smith’s idea is based on districts in the state, however.
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