Article: COUNTY BUDGET SHORTFALL: $60 MILLION QUALIFIES FOR FRONT PAGE.(Editorial)(Letter to the editor)

Article: 2 lawmakers seek higher gas tax GOP legislators float 2- or 3-cent boost, which is immediately criticized
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  December 19, 1996 ;     700+ words ......renewal fees might be needed on top of a gas tax boost to adequately fund the state's transportation...Assembly. However, the call for a higher gas tax was blasted by Democratic legislators...instead of asking for more money. The gas tax is now 23.7 cents per gallon, and is raised...

Article: YOUR VEIWS: AUTOMATIC GAS TAX.(FORUM)(Letter to the Editor)
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  December 18, 2005 ;     700+ words ......last Sunday's Forum that repealing the gas tax indexing formula will lead to lost lives...Eliminating indexing does nothing to prevent the gas tax from going up next week, much less next...they can vote tomorrow to increase the gas tax by one penny, one dollar, whatever they...

Article: TALK OF COUNTY GAS TAX BROUGHT UP, AGAIN | IN 2001? NEW PROPOSAL SENDS MONEY WHERE NEEDED MOST
Herald-News (Joliet, IL);  November 11, 1999 ;     625 words ......municipalities is considering resurrecting a county gas tax for road improvements. Jamy Lyne, a program...the Crest Hill City Hall that a county gas tax could help municipalities. The group had...toward road projects through a county gas tax would mean more projects in more areas...

Article: PLAYING CATCH-UP WITH THE STATE GAS TAX
Roanoke Times & World News;  December 29, 2003 ;     370 words ......tax-reform plan is any mention of raising the state's gas tax. Yet boosting the gas tax is long overdue - and may have more political support...House of Delegates, has filed a bill to raise the gas tax statewide by 6.5 cents per gallon, from 17.5 cents...

Article: Gas tax adds to pain at the pump; State lawmakers try again to cut off automatic increase
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 30, 2005 ;     587 words ......the annual spring increase in the state gas tax raises that levy 0.8 cents per gallon...non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau. The gas tax will bring in about $1 billion a year...to kill the automatic increase in the gas tax, which is adjusted for inflation each...

Article: Roadshow: Liberals bounce back on gas tax debate
Oakland Tribune;  February 14, 2009 ;     548 words ......reading comments from each side in the gas-tax debate, there is one stark contrast. The group advocating for a higher gas tax uses words like "closing the deficit...any day and it calls for raising the gas tax by 12 cents. This would be the first...

Article: WILL COUNTY GAS TAX PROPOSAL LACKS MOMENTUM | OVERSHADOWED: AWMAKERS MORE FOCUSED ON RYAN PLAN
Herald-News (Joliet, IL);  May 13, 1999 ;     494 words ......request for the authority to enact a local gas tax has been all but lost in the debate over...an's Illinois First public works plan. The gas tax never had much momentum in Springfield...County board members had hoped that the gas tax could pass on the coattails of the governor...

Article: WILL COUNTY REVIVES GAS-TAX PLAN TO IMPROVE ROADS
Sun Publications (IL);  November 12, 1999 ;     566 words ......municipalities is considering resurrecting a county gas tax for road improvements. Jamy Lyne, a program...transportation committee this week that a county gas tax could help municipalities, including Naperville...toward road projects through a county gas tax would mean more projects ...

Article: Gas Tax Increase Falls Short of Seattle Area's Transportation Needs.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  June 30, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Tribune Business News Jun. 30--The state gas tax is going up by a nickel a gallon Tuesday...cent increase, which raises the state gas tax to 28 cents a gallon, is the main source...slap a 10 percent surcharge on the state gas tax -- if the voters approved. Officials from...

Article: Gas tax adds to pain at the pump.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  March 30, 2005 ;     624 words ......the annual spring increase in the state gas tax raises that levy 0.8 cents per gallon...non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau. The gas tax will bring in about $1 billion a year...to kill the automatic increase in the gas tax, which is adjusted for inflation each...

Article: THE MINNESOTA POLL: BRIDGE COLLAPSE; No tax and no rush on bridge, public says; Minnesotans are satisfied with their leaders' handling of the collapse and don't support a gas tax increase.(NEWS)(MINNESOTA POLL)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  October 7, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Minnesota Poll has found, supporting neither a gas tax increase nor a new special session to...percent of respondents opposed raising the gas tax, while 46 percent supported it. The gap...session. Strong feelings on tax Minnesota's gas tax, among the lowest in the nation, is likely...

Article: Doyle agrees to gas tax bill.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  December 20, 2005 ;     700+ words ......end the automatic annual increase in the gas tax for inflation, starting in April 2007...could mean future votes to increase the gas tax. The essential purpose of this bill is...just rely on an automatic increase in the gas tax as they have supported for many years...

Article: Doyle agrees to gas tax bill; Governor plans to sign legislation eliminating automatic increase
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  December 20, 2005 ;     700+ words ......end the automatic annual increase in the gas tax for inflation, starting in April 2007...could mean future votes to increase the gas tax. "The essential purpose of this bill is...just rely on an automatic increase in the gas tax as they have supported for many years...

Article: CAPITOL WEEK; Gas tax increase actually not as big as some others
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  April 24, 2005 ;     700+ words ......and Washington counties, but the state gas tax, despite its recent bad press, has not...the individual income tax, sales tax and gas tax and compared their rates of increase since...of the automatic annual indexing of the gas tax a maneuver several legislators criticized...