South Carolina lawmakers will adjourn for the year Thursday, likely without a plan for funding repairs to the state’s roads and bridges. A bill that would raise the gas tax, cut the state income tax, and restructure the Department of Transportation is stuck in the state Senate.

“People want to have their roads fixed, but they’re very divided about how they want to go about doing that, and those divisions are reflected here; we’re divided too,” says Sen. Shane Massey, R-Edgefield.

Lawmakers are divided into three groups: one that favors raising the gas tax as a permanent and stable source of money for roads and bridges; one that wants to raise the gas tax while cutting the state income tax to lessen the blow of the gas tax increase; and one that doesn’t want any kind of tax increase, arguing that there’s already enough money in the state budget to maintain roads.

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