Faso, Weld Seek To Cut Taxation On Gas at Pump - May 2, 2006 - The New York Sun - NY News
ALBANY - As New Yorkers sit in traffic and fume about burning through tanks of $3-a-gallon gasoline, the Republican candidates for governor say they want to suspend the state sales tax at the pump.

A former minority leader of the Assembly, John Faso, said yesterday that he wants to eliminate the 4% sales tax on fuel purchases between Memorial Day and Labor Day, when demand is typically at a peak. His Republican rival, William Weld, supports eliminating the tax indefinitely.

While the Republicans running neck-and-neck in opinion polls offered relief from surging gas prices, the Democrats running for governor avoided dipping their toes into the slick waters.

Spokesmen for the leading candidate, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, did not return calls for comment. A spokeswoman for the other Democratic candidate, Thomas Suozzi, said she could not reach the Nassau County executive to determine his position on the gas tax.

New Yorkers pay the highest gas taxes in the nation - 45.8 cents a gallon in state and local taxes - and rising gas prices have increased the burden, which has put pressure on state and local politicians to do something about it

Low and behold, some of the Republicans are doing something right, they are speaking out against the excessive taxes we pay on a gallon of gas.

Spitzer wouldn’t speak out on the budget and is silent on this issue, of course he doesn’t want to step on Sheldon Silvers toes now does he..

Suozzi.. Come on now, have a back bone and come out against this issue too. You are a better man than that.