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Indiana’s House of Representatives has approved a 10 cent gasoline tax increase.

Randy Frye represents Indiana’s 67th district and is one of the cosponsors of House Bill 1002 – the Transportation infrastructure funding bill.  He says when rural roads were first built – they weren’t designed to support today’s farm equipment.  “They were built for small trucks and even horse-drawn wagons,” he says.  “Now we’re driving tractor-trailers across them.  The bridges also were also not built for near the traffic – or the weight.”

He tells Brownfield the tax increase is part of plan to fund infrastructure repair and upkeep. 

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