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LEGISLATURE: GAS TAX INCREASE GAINS SUPPORT
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GREGG HERRINGTON, Columbian
The Columbian
12-15-2001
Three Vancouver-area legislators and the civic and business establishment Friday urged support for increasing gasoline taxes to improve the state's overloaded transportation system.
Sen. Don Carlson, R-Hazel Dell, and Reps. Val Ogden and Bill Fromhold, both D-Vancouver, told a legislative preview audience that they'll vote in the upcoming session for a gas tax increase without putting it to a statewide vote.
This w...
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