State Del. Tim Hugo, R-Centreville, has come up with a novel way to fund needed transportation improvements in Virginia without raising taxes. He wants to completely eliminate the current 17.5-cent state gas tax and replace it with an 0.9-cent increase in the commonwealth’s 5 percent sales and use tax.

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