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Major highway bridge closes, leaders call for passage of MoDOT funding increase - The Missouri Times

Submitted by Brent Hugh on Sun, 05/31/2015 - 9:47am

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Missouri’s tax on motor fuels has not increased in almost 20 years, and is the fifth-lowest in the nation. Pending legislation sponsored by Libla, R-Poplar Bluff, would increase the tax on motor fuels by 1.5 cents per gallon to 18.8 cents per gallon, and would raise the tax on diesel fuel by 3.5 cents per gallon to 20.8 cents per gallon, with the increases to go into effect Jan. 1, 2016. Only hours after Nixon’s statements about the bridge closure, the senate began debating Libla’s gas tax, with Senators Ed Emery and Rob Schaaf, both Republicans as well, threatening to filibuster the plan.

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