Speaker Fox Calls Chafee Tax Plan A No Go
Large anti-tax turnout, including members of Salons United Against Service Taxes, swamps State House Wednesday.
Salon owners, car dealers, theater and newspaper owners and Chamber of Commerce representatives from around the state turned out in force Wednesday to protest Governor Lincoln Chafee’s proposal to expand the sales tax. House Speaker Gordon Fox met the deluge of protest with a statement rejecting the governor’s plan. "The House will not pass the budget in its current form. We will instead develop alternatives to this proposal and will continue to work with the Governor to amend his budget submission." Chafee’s plan was meant to address a projected $331 million deficit. His proposal called for a reduction in the state sales tax from 7 percent to 6 percent, but would significantly widen the base of taxable items by including previously …
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Jim Iezzi
11:02 am on Monday, April 18, 2011
Casper Milquetoast......Interesting screen name you've chosen since you must have been invisible in the last 30 years while our general assembly destroyed this state. You advocate for more taxes so they can just continue their reckless ways. With each increase in tax revenue and fees they have received they have found ways to squander it. Tobacco money, stimulus money, gambling money. Don't be … more ›