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Utah voters rejected a 10 cent-per-gallon gasoline tax to help fund education Tuesday, with 66 percent of voters saying 鈥渘o鈥� to the ballot proposition,

The Question 1 was nonbinding, but they would implement the tax if it was approved. The tax would have funded transportation projects and allowed an equivalent amount from the general fund to go to education. The gas tax in Utah is currently little more than 20 cents per gallon, which places it 25th in the nation, but the increase would have moved it into the top 10 states, according to . The added cost for the average driver was estimated at .

The question got on the ballot as part of a compromise between the state legislature and an organization called , whose ultimate goal is to generate an additional $700 million for Utah schools.

Some voters may have been confused because profits from fuel taxes typically don鈥檛 go to education and because the question was nonbinding, Austin Cox, Question 1鈥檚 campaign manager, .

Utah spends the least of all 50 states on education, according to the most recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics. See estimates for how much each school would have received in additional funding .

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