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		<title>Mass Gas Tax News &#8211; Deval Patrick says No</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saying the state is on the verge of an economic recovery, Governor Deval Patrick today dismissed any notion of raising the gas tax and defended the state and national health care reform laws, in the first breakfast forum planned for 2010 gubernatorial candidates.]]></description>
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		<title>Raise the Gas Tax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DESPITE the Massachusetts Senate's passage of a tax package last week, it's clear that funds allocated for transportation - principally from the sales tax - are simply not enough. Moreover, with the rejection of 19- and 11-cent gas tax increase options, what seems to be absent from the debate is the compelling environmental argument for a hike in the gas tax.]]></description>
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		<title>Mass Gas Tax &#8211; Nineteen Cents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A top House lawmaker today called Gov. Deval Patrick’s proposed 19-cent gas tax hike unlikely to receive further attention from the Legislature for the foreseeable future, after the Senate rejected the measure Tuesday, and as legislative officials voiced annoyance with Patrick for trying to play a larger role in deliberations.]]></description>
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		<title>Debate On Mass Gas Tax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON — Will Massachusetts drivers have to dig deeper in their wallet to pay at the pump in the coming year?

New House Speaker Robert DeLeo seems to think so. When pressed in a recent NECN interview, he said it was "a pretty good bet" a gas tax hike would be approved this year.

The emotional issue of a gas tax increase — coming on the heels of volatile prices at the pump last summer — will be one of the stickier issues as Statehouse leaders try to shape a major overhaul of the state's debt-ridden transportation system this year.

What hasn't been spelled out is how large the tax increase could be, or where the money would go.
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		<title>Governor Patrick MA Gas Tax Hike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But administration officials, responding yesterday to a leak reported in the media, said the governor also was considering a gas tax increase as low as 5 cents and that no decisions have been made.

The gas tax in Massachusetts is 23.5 cents per gallon, which has not been substantially increased since 1991. A 29-cent increase would bring the state's tax to 52.5 cents per gallon. New York currently has the nation's highest state gas tax, at 41.3 cents per gallon.]]></description>
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		<title>Deval Patrick &#8211; Raise Gas Tax</title>
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		<title>MA Gas Tax &#8211; No Way</title>
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		<title>MA Gas Tax &#8211; Burden</title>
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		<title>Springfield MA &#8211; No Gas Tax</title>
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		<title>Hillary Clinton &#8211; Gas Tax</title>
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