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GOP lawmaker trying to sell colleagues on gas tax

Through lawmakers spurned recent proposals to raise Louisiana’s stagnant gasoline tax, another Republican legislator is trying to muscle through the idea, hoping he can persuade colleagues that significant new money is needed to attack a multibillion-dollar backlog of road and bridge work

Rep. Jack McFarland, of Wmnfield, faces the same headwinds that jettisoned other efforts to raise taxes at the …

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