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In Virginia, car owners pay $1.10 tax on every 10 gallons of gasoline they buy.

Docs a tax this high—on a basic commodity like gasoline —really make sense? Gasoline taxes in this state amount to a 50% sales tax—and that’s over five times as high as the tax rate on luxuries like diamonds and mink coats. How did gasoline taxes get so high? Well, since World War 11, there have been three increases in the federal gasoline tax alone. This brought the

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