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State governments, facing budget disaster, have mined other revenue sources, including tolls.
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It recommends moving towards a nationwide system of road charging, including road tolls, to account for this loss of revenue.
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Bills including the abolition of bridge tolls, scrapping the graduate endowment and safeguarding rural schools were set out to the Scottish Parliament.
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Several factors have bolstered gold prices in overnight action, including news of mounting death tolls in the wake of fresh Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip which helped to prop up the yellow metal from a safe-haven bid standpoint.
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And the death tolls that are now being talked about, well above 20, 000 are catching everyone by surprise, including the government.
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