The political winds have shifted in the Senate, where a tax bill that appeared doomed to failure yesterday has found a sudden surge of support today.
The legislation includes a $1 per-pack tax increase on cigarettes – a provision Gov. Peter Shumlin says would hurt merchants along the Connecticut River Valley. Shumlin launched an impressive lobbying effort and, in one-on-one talks with various lawmakers, managed to engineer majority opposition in the Senate against its own finance committee’s tax bill.
After a series of closed-door sessions between Shumlin and senators Wednesday, they looked to have reached a deal. By lowering the proposed tax increase to 53 cents per pack, Senate President John Campbell would secure enough votes to get his tax bill a ‘yes’ vote on the floor.
Today however, it appears some Senate Democrats have had a change of heart. And according to Campbell, the Senate may well proceed with the $1 tax (for which he presumably now has the votes). Press coverage of the Democratic governor’s intervention in legislative affairs seems to have struck a nerve.
The government so happy about this about the TAX all of the living creatures and the world also the animals. They doesn't care about the health and lives of the people they know about money all money.
Posted by: Electronic Cigarette | March 04, 2012 at 09:54 PM