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Article: Doyle agrees to gas tax bill.
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 20, 2005
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Dec. 20--MADISON -- Gov. Jim Doyle said Monday that he will sign a bill that will end the automatic annual increase in the gas tax for inflation, starting in April 2007 -- a proposal that seemed to have no future only six weeks ago. Wisconsin
Bowing to public support, and trying to defuse an election-year issue with the two Republicans who want his job, Doyle said that the bill (SB 331) will force future legislators to act more responsibly by having to vote on how Wisconsin should pay for its highways, bus systems and other transportation programs.
He acknowledged that could mean future votes to increase the gas tax.
"The essential purpose of ...