Friend,
The Democrats running Beacon Hill could easily meet today and give citizens some relief in the way of temporarily suspending fuel taxes as neighboring states have done, or any other of a number of ideas.
Rep. Mark Cusack, a Braintree Democrat who co-chairs the panel, said lawmakers have not had enough time to fully vet the tax cut package Baker rolled out in January.
“The governor wanting it is one thing, but there’s 155 members of the House and 40 in the Senate. There’s a lot more that goes into it than saying ‘I want it, so do it,'” Cusack told the News Service. “We need more time to game out that process.”
I'm old enough to remember when the Democrats wanted across-the-board pay raises, so they did it immediately.
This is same individual who called a proposal to temporarily shelve the state gas tax a "gimmick."
