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Ray LaHood: “We are not going to raise the gasoline tax. I will say that emphatically. We can't.”

On the recordMarch 9, 2009
We are not going to raise the gasoline tax. I will say that emphatically. We can't.
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Ray LaHood
Republican · Illinois

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LaHood emphasizes that raising gasoline taxes is not an option due to economic hardship.

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