Repubs try to duck vote on gas tax

Republicans in the State Senate would rather gas about high gasoline prices than do anything about them, Steve Walters reveals in the Journal Sentinel's Capitol blog.

Wisconsin's gas tax goes up automatically every April 1, tied to inflation. It's a gimmick state legislators dreamed up so they could avoid ever having to vote to raise gas taxes.

Loopy State Sen. Tom Reynolds, R-West Allis, who not only marches to a different drummer but hears different voices in his head, wants to end that automatic increase.

Walter says Reynolds' Republican colleagues are doing everything they can to prevent having to vote. You know that Wisconsin road builders, reliable and generous donors to the Incumbent Party, will be watching.