January 21: Replacing the Gas Tax: Two States Choose Different Strategies (Planetizen)

January 23, 2013

What is the future of the "deeply flawed" state gas tax? Lemov Penelope compares the approaches taken by VA and OR - both plan to eliminate it and replace it with alternatives - a state sales tax and a vehicle-miles-traveled (VMT) fee, respectively.

Penelope is not optimistic about the future of the state gas tax.

Every tax has its problems, but the state gasoline tax seems more deeply flawed than most. That's largely because the gas tax in most ...

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