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State Rep. Mike Carroll, the ranking Democrat on the House Transportation Committee, told a House hearing in February that the sprawling expanse of Pennsylvania's highways and state roads has not kept lawmakers from peeling off almost half of the gas tax revenue for other purposes.

That includes 12 cents a gallon to the state police budget, eight cents a gallon to local governments, three cents per gallon to the Mon-Fayette Expressway's Southern Beltway in southwestern Pennsylvania and three cents a gallon to the Department of Agriculture and other state agencies.

12 cents a gallon just to fund state police...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Texas used to do that, too, but they phased it out.