Protecting our citizens and their businesses and employees should be the Legislature's top priority.

Recently an article in the Santa Fe New Mexican supported raising our gasoline tax rates. Gasoline gas tax hikes reverberate throughout our economy. Because of gasoline tax increases, we see higher daily costs of living including costs to commute to work and for visits to the doctor's office. We see this tax imposing undue hardships on rural New Mexicans predominantly but it also negatively impacts everyone that commutes to work daily. This increase would be especially impactful in this time of high inflation which has harmed all New Mexicans.

Today New Mexicans, who buy gasoline as a needed fuel to get the kids to school, go to work, or to get their loved ones to a doctor, pay 17 cents p

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