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David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. David writes about political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties.

  • July 31, 2007 1:09 PM

    More Rocky Mountain Republicans Rejecting Grover Norquist-ism

    Over the last month, I've written a series of posts about how Rocky Mountain voters - and even some Rocky Mountain Republican officials - are rejecting the Washington-based conservative movement's economic zealotry, and specifically its cut-taxes-at-all-cost religion. Now it looks like that's happening in the reddest of red states, Wyoming. The Associated Press reports that the state's Republican-dominated legislature is moving a bill "to increase the tax on gasoline and diesel fuel by 10 cents phased in over three years." The Wyoming GOP also voted "to increase driver's license and other fees by 70 percent."

    These tax and fee increases, of course, are wildly regressive in that they hit low and middle income people harder as a percentage of their income than they hit wealthy folks. But the fact that they are being pushed by the Republicans in one of the most Republican states in the nation is just more evidence that Grover Norquist and his anti-tax economic fundamentalism is being rejected even by his own ideological cronies.

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  • waltc [TypeKey Profile Page] :

    10 cents phased over 3 years? thats nothing. We'll see $4.00 a gallon gas by next year.

    Outrage on this matter is moot.

    Oil and its byproduct gasoline are going up no matter what the Democrats and progressives do. There's no enough of it to go around and more are using it than ever before. BTW this is why no oil company will build a gasoline refinery. They know oil supplies are running down and its not worth it for them to invest billions in something that may only be used for a few years anyways.

    Posted on July 31, 2007 3:53 PM
  • butte [TypeKey Profile Page] :

    Notice that the gasoline tax is a regressive tax. The property tax cuts the Republicans were trying to push through, in the Montana legislature, were extremely regressive. The income tax cuts the Bushiato and the rubber-stamp Republican Congress passed were regressive.
    Every time Republicans "cut taxes" it always means that their rich and greedy buddies get all the "tax cuts".
    They seem to expect the rest of us to do without "tax cuts". I guess "tax cuts" are some kind of luxury item. ;-p

    Posted on August 1, 2007 6:24 AM
  • GrantBurkeVT [TypeKey Profile Page] :

    Grover Norquist supports regressive taxation, especially NATIONAL SALES TAX so I seriously doubt the WY GOP is against Norquist on that front. Am I missing something here?

    P.S.: Norquist is the perfect role model for maximizing poverty and terrorism against all who voted for these terrorists out of trust.

    Posted on August 1, 2007 6:49 AM

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