Solons Mull Options For Road $$$

The House Ways & Means has introduced two new bills, one with Rep. Frank Henderson’s car registration fee bracket change, which raises $3.1 million a year; and one with the $13.1 million in annual increases in DMV fees. The idea, House GOP leaders said, is for a four-part plan: Those two bills, plus another already introduced to repeal the fuel tax exemption for ethanol; plus another that’s still being worked up to shift a portion of Idaho’s future general fund growth into road work/ Betsy Russell , Eye On Boise. More here .

• Henderson’s fee-rate brackets idea
• House Dems: Leery of general fund shift
• Guv: ‘Not going to preclude anything’
• Legislature won’t adjourn this week
• No gas tax increase, other measures instead

Question: Do you agree with counterproposals offered by Rep. Frank Henderson and others to raise some revenue to help fund road work?