Senate has plan for the roads, also

Last week you may have heard State Representative Bill Whitmire of Walhalla describe the version of the House plan that he likes the best to help fix South Carolina’s road problems. The one Republican Whitmire likes lowers the gas tax, but creates an excise tax as a way to raise needed funds. But the other chamber in Columbia, the Senate, has a chance to fashion its own solution. And State Senator Thomas Alexander, the Oconee-Pickens Republican, is speaking on 96.3/WGOG NEWS today about the plan he likes coming out of a Senate committee. It would raise the gas tax four cents a year for three years.