Poor Sen. Coffin - who desperately wanted to raise taxes on diesel fuel for truckers so that the cost of our milk, butter, eggs and cheese would all go up - referred to the no-new-taxes highway construction proposal passed by the Senate yesterday as a “miserable excuse for a bill,” “shameful,” “half-baked” and “indefensible.”
But then again, he was sugar-coating it.
“We allowed an industry to completely escape because the governor said no new taxes,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal quotes Sen. Coffin as declaring during yesterday’s Senate discussion of the bill.
Of course, Sen. Coffin is dead wrong. “State and local taxes on diesel fuel are 27 cents a gallon,” notes the RJ this morning. So exactly how is tacking on 27 cents to every gallon of diesel fuel pumped in Nevada allowing “an industry to completely escape” paying for the roads they use? It’s an absurd claim.
In any event, guess how many senators voted for the diesel tax hike that Sen. Coffin proposed earlier in the session? Why, that would be…none. Why? Because Sen. Coffin NEVER INTRODUCED such a tax hike proposal. Indeed, his theatrics yesterday were nothing more than end-of-session grandstanding…which, mercifully, finally ran out of gas itself.
Posted on June 4th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: Nevada
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