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Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. told a gathering of county leaders yesterday that he thinks the state should allow universities to raise tuition and should increase the gas tax as it looks to close a growing budget shortfall.
He acknowledged that raising the gas tax will probably be politically untenable -- House Speaker Michael E. Busch (D-Anne Arundel) told the same group yesterday that the General Assembly has "no appetite" for increasing taxes -- but said that without new revenue, there will be no state money for transportation priorities, including the construction of the Purple Line, a proposed mass-transit link between Montgomery and Prince George's counties.
Miller Open to Raising Tuition and Gas Tax - washingtonpost.com
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