Friday, September 02, 2005

Mass.Lawmaker proposes gas tax waiver

The Boston Globe is reporting that some want a cut in the gas tax:
A Republican state lawmaker's call to temporarily waive the state's gasoline tax created a politically sticky situation yesterday for Governor Mitt Romney, who initially dismissed the idea, but later said he ''would be hard-pressed to veto any tax reduction."


Asked by a reporter at a morning news conference whether giving motorists a ''holiday" from the state's 21cents-per-gallon gasoline tax was ''crazy," Romney said it was. The governor called the idea ''an additional incentive to use gasoline and energy."
and this news from Pennsylvania
Responding to public shock over soaring fuel prices, Gov. Rendell said yesterday that he may ask the legislature to temporarily lift Pennsylvania's 31-cent-per-gallon gas tax.

In New Jersey, state lawmakers were calling for price-control measures to ease the pain at the pump in the wake of Hurricane Katrina's devastating impact on Gulf Coast oil and refinery production.
Hopefully,this will start a nation wide trend in the different state legislatures.