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Rappahannock’s Sen. Nathan H. Miller and Del. George P. Beard Jr., both Republicans, would rather scrutinize the state highway department then talk about supporting the Republican governor’s newest gasoline tax proposal.
"I’m not sure a four-centsper-gallon tax increase at the pump would raise sufficient revenues in years to come,” said Sen. Miller, a lawyer in Harrisonburg. “You could make a case for the state Department of Transportation and Highways coming under the umbrella of the state’s general fund budgeting. “Why is the state highway department so totally separate from the rest of the state’s budgeting?” asks Sen. Miller. “We’re still finding out, for example, when the federal revenue-sharing monies are coming in.”
Sen. Miller adds that “there are as many ideas as there are General Assembly members, and we’ve got to get a vehicle into the finance committees and work from there.”
He represents Rappahannock, Culpeper, Madison, Page and Rockingham counties and Harrisonburg in rural Senate District 26.
Del. Beard, chairman of the board of the Second National Bank of Culpeper, said he was opposed to the governor’s original proposal of a four per cent wholesale tax increase on gasoline “from the beginning.”
However, instead of the present alternative of fourcents-per-gallon at the gas pump, Del. Beard said he “probably will support a twocents-per-gallon increase at the pump.”
Holding up a thick copy of highway statistics distributed after the governor’s speech last Friday, Del. Beard said: “This I appreciate more than anything-—to get a set of updated, clear figures this1'morning. This is the information from the state highway department that I’ve been waiting for since we got here.”
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