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 Post subject: Gas tax for Lake County
PostPosted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 10:48 am 
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Gasoline prices not high enough for you?

Well Sen. Lonnie Randolph has the cure for you. He has authored a bill allowing the county to add a 1% tax to the price of a gallon of gas. As of today, that would be an increase of 3 cents. Of course, that would go up as the price oif gas goes up.
Fireworks would be subjected to the same 1%.
So where would this money go? To the communities where it was collected, who put up with all the traffic and hubub those gas stations bring?
That would be a huge windfall for Hammond, where a lot of Illinois residents buy gas.
But no, Randolph's bill would have the money distributed to all LC communities based on population.
Wonder why I haven't seen anything in the paper about this bill?
Here's the link if you want to see it for yourself. I'm sending a message to Randolph telling him just what I think of this, and I hope you do too:

http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/201 ... 414.1.html


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 Post subject: Re: Gas tax for Lake County
PostPosted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:40 am 
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 Post subject: Re: Gas tax for Lake County
PostPosted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:42 am 
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What's that mean?
I'm guessing it means something like "That sucks."

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 Post subject: Re: Gas tax for Lake County
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freetime wrote:
What's that mean?
I'm guessing it means something like "That sucks."


sorry, I meant to say TINBTLCDS

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 Post subject: Re: Gas tax for Lake County
PostPosted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:00 am 
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Well I still don't know what you are talking about, but I'm surprised people don't seem to care about this new tax.
I for one don't need higher gas prices!

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