House Republican Leader Larry Cafero appeared on the Ray and Diane Show this morning on 1080 AM, and spoke to Ray Dunaway about the Republican call to cap the gross receipts tax on gasoline.
You can listen to the discussion here.
House Republican Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., today said the alternative Republican budget first proposed in April would roll back another scheduled gas hike set for July 1 and provide relief from the state’s pending fiscal woes.In response to Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s challenge to legislative leaders yesterday to find $25 million to forestall the [...]
The Journal Inquirer has an excellent editorial today which highlights the role government and taxation is playing in the high prices we are all paying at the pumps. They say:
Back in Connecticut, Governor Rell and the General Assembly are about to preside over another increase in gasoline taxes as the state’s wholesale tax on oil [...]
The half-percent increase in Connecticut’s gross receipts tax on petroleum is scheduled to go into effect in July. The current gross receipts tax of seven percent is passed on to consumers, hidden in the price of gasoline, and costs motorists nearly twenty cents a gallon. The scheduled increase will translate into roughly three additional cents per gallon of [...]
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