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THAT Virginia today has a highway system matched by few if any other states—with a higher proportion (93%) of surfaced miles of rural road than any state except Connecticut and Massachusetts (and many more miles than those two states combined). • • • THAT Virginia is faced with no problem of reduced highway revenue. (Annual highway tax receipts, without increase in tax rates, have more than doubled since 1946.) • • • THAT Virginia today faces no problem of rising construction costs. (The national trend in highway construction costs has been downward since 1952.) • • . THAT Virginia highway users, according to U. S. Government figures, are already paying a proportion of total State tax revenue that is more than 10% higher than the national average. ~ ‘
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