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Louisiana lawmakers nix gas tax hike but advance plan to extend sales tax Mark Ballard BATON ROUGE -- Saying something must be done to find the money to fix the state's crumbling highways and dangerous bridges, the Louisiana House's tax-writing committee rejected the latest effort to increase the tax on gasoline but advanced a bill that would extend the temporary sales tax increase. On an 8-8 vote late Tuesday night, the House Ways & Means Committee sidelined House Bill 615. The measure started out proposing lowering one dedicated tax and raising another with the effect of increasing the ta...