Cutting The Gas Tax Throws RIPTA Under The Bus
Last week, Senator Walter Felag, Jr. (D-Dist.10) introduced legislation that would reduce Rhode Island’s gasoline tax by 5 cents per gallon. The legislation, he said, would allow gas stations near the Massachusetts border to be more competitive with their neighbors to the north and east. While Rhode Island’s motorists and gas station owners may rejoice, this [...]
Tassoni: Second Legislator To Drop Out of ALEC
Citing the “self-serving ideas of corporations and rich, powerful interests,” Sen John Tassoni, a Smithfield Democrat, become the second member of the General Assembly to officially distance himself from the American Legislative Exchange Council, the shadowy far right wing organization known as ALEC that pairs legislators with corporate interests, after news that more than 20 [...]
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