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"In order to mask the true size of the federal deficit, the Republican administrations of Presidents Reagan and Bush have withheld money that the citizens of Virginia have paid in gasoline taxes," said Wilder.
Working for the release of federal government funds totaling $190, Wilder said, is one of his top priorities. User fees and pledge bond are other sources of revenue, he said.
"I know full well — and my record reflects — the necessity of addressing issues such as transportation not as regional but as state issues," Wilder said.
Coleman passed off Wilders plan as “empty rhetoric," saying “now we know that his plan is to do nothing."
The GOP candidate questioned Wilder’s commitment to transportation.
"State transportation expenditures were slashed for three straight years (1982-1984) while Mr. Wilder was chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee during a Democratic state administration,” said Coleman in a statement following Wilder’s transportation announcement. In addition, said Coleman, the Baliles-Wilder administration imposed massive new taxes in 1986 and 1987 for road improvements, yet forty percent of funded road projects in Northern Virginia are behind schedule.
Coleman’s regional transportation authority would have the power to raise and spend monies for roads in the Northern Virginia region.
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