USA Today: “Mike Pence is going to a gas station in Hobart, Ind., Tuesday for an Americans for Prosperity event on inflation.”
NWI Times: Indiana’s record-breaking gasoline taxes heading even higher in August
INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana Democratic Party, the organization that advocates for the future of Indiana and its families, today laughed at Mike Pence’s political stunt on gas prices, because the former vice president will be criticizing his own Indiana Republican Party for the high costs at the pump. A new report in NWI Times found Indiana’s gas tax is at its highest in state history – all thanks to a 2017 law signed by Governor Eric Holcomb and approved by the Republican supermajority at the statehouse.
Ironically, Pence is holding this event with Americans for Prosperity, an organization opposed to high taxes on the everyday American. The Republican Party continues to reveal themselves as an out-of-touch, extremist party with no actual agenda for Indiana’s future.
“It’s a shame Mike Pence doesn’t read local news anymore, because if he had, he’d learn the state’s high gas taxes are solely because of Governor Eric Holcomb and the Indiana Republican Party,” said Drew Anderson, spokesman for the Indiana Democratic Party. “Hoosiers should expect these kinds of political stunts from Pence – because he’s trying so hard to be relevant. Pence chases a headline, not a better future for Hoosiers, and it’s why even Trump supporters no longer support him.”
SHOT: Mike Pence to Criticize State’s High Gas Prices in Indiana
USA Today: “Mike Pence is going to a gas station in Hobart, Ind., Tuesday for an Americans for Prosperity event on inflation.”
CHASER: Pence’s Indiana GOP Responsible for Highest Gas Taxes in State History
NWI Times: Indiana’s record-breaking gasoline taxes heading even higher in August
Hoosier motorists will continue feeling some extra pain at the pump even if gasoline prices keep incrementally falling as they have for more than 30 days in a row.
Blame Indiana’s record-high fuel taxes.
The Department of Revenue announced Monday that the applied 7% sales tax on all Indiana gasoline purchases in August will be 29.4 cents per gallon — the highest in state history. […]
Indiana is one of just 16 states, including Illinois and Michigan, where gasoline purchases are subject to sales tax. The majority of the country opts not to double-tax gasoline purchases by collecting both a gasoline tax and its sales tax on gasoline.
The gasoline tax in Indiana now stands at 33 cents per gallon, up from 32 cents per gallon in June and 18 cents per gallon in 2017, in accordance with a state law enacted by the Republican-controlled General Assembly and Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb to generate more revenue for road construction projects.
As a result, the gas prices Hoosiers pay in August will consist of 80.8 cents per gallon in taxes, including the state sales tax on gasoline, the state gasoline tax and the 18.4 cents per gallon federal gas tax. […]
Statehouse Democrats are hoping to change this during the special legislative session that begins July 25.
They plan to propose temporarily suspending Indiana’s 62.4 cents per gallon in gasoline taxes for several months, and replacing the lost revenue with excess budget reserves, to immediately bring down the price Hoosiers pay at the pump.
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