In the State Of Idaho

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http://www.ktvb.com/news/localnews/s...g.d21d4cd.html

House pitches collectors coin sales to fix roads

04:35 PM MST on Thursday, February 12, 2009

Associated Press

BOISE -- House lawmakers answered Gov. Butch Otter's
transportation funding salvo with ideas of their
own Thursday that ranged from the mundane to the
quirky, including a plans to sell specially minted
gold coins to fund asphalt repairs to a scheme to
turn Idaho into a national license plate haven.

The proposals came two days after Otter introduced
bills of his own meant to raise a total of $174
million annually after five years of gradual
increases, including boosting the gas tax to 35
cents from 25 cents, hiking car and truck
registration fees and levying a tax on rental cars.

One of the House bills would boost the gas tax to
30 cents from 25 cents, raising about $26 million
next year.

Another would just boost it to 27 cents.

Rep. Clint Mathews, an Idaho Falls Republican,
would sell commemorative coins to collectors, then
distribute proceeds to road work.

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