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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Delaware chief justice urges hike in gasoline tax

Leo Strine
DOVER — Members of the Bond Committee met Monday for the first time to begin deliberations on the budget with the Department of Education and the judiciary appearing before the committee.

Although Gov. John Carney is not scheduled to release his recommendations until the end of March, the Bond Committee still spend hours discussing the needs from several state agencies and branches of government.

Former Gov. Jack Markell’s capital proposal called for spending $555.3 million in the upcoming fiscal year, with that sum almost evenly divided between construction projects and the Department of Transportation’s budget.

Monday included brief discussions on the gasoline tax, which is currently 23 cents per gallon. Chief Justice Leo Strine urged lawmakers to increase it, and committee co-chair Sen. Dave Sokola, D-Newark, later noted the tax is lower than in surrounding states.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lower is a REASON to raise gas tax rates? People migrated to DE because of lower taxes. People need to wake up and clean the liberals out of northern Delaware.

Anonymous said...

Wonder how much to bail out casinos this year.

Anonymous said...


Mr. Strine should go back to chasing ambulances if his current high income on the bench isn't satisfying him!

Takes real brass to advocate picking the pocket of the regular folk in order to pad his lifestyle. Hope Delaware has a chance to turn him out at the ballot box.

Anonymous said...

Keywords for politicians TAX that is all i here, remember why we had a revaluation against England , That is addressed to you politicians!

Anonymous said...

If he's so rich that he wants to pay more in gas taxes, let him. We LEFT Maryland to come to Delaware because it has Lower Taxes. I spent too many years of my Life paying High Taxes to the thieves in Annapolis. Good riddance!