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When Missouri lawmakers go into session next month, they may decide to send voters a gas tax proposal in the near future. The hike would help pay for highways, roads and bridges whether taxpayers go along with it could have long-lasting consequences.
Right now, Missouri s gas tax is 17 cents per gallon. Only oil-rich Alaska s is lower. And while Missouri has the seventh-largest highway system in the U.S., it has the lowest revenue per mile of any of its neighboring heartland states.
Much of Missouri s infrastructure needs repair or replacement, say experts and politicians including conservatives and libertarians. Last year, Gov. Mike Parson and lawmakers agreed on a Focus on Bridges program, sending $50 million in state general revenue to fix 45 bridges by the end of this year in hopes of addressing what Parson called a critical need.