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Grassroots Effort to Pressure Iowa Lawmakers Not to Hike Gas Tax

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Americans for Prosperity, an Iowa grassroots group, is launching a new initiative, No Gas Tax Iowa, to pressure on legislators not to hike the gas tax. The effort will empower local activists to petition their legislators through social media and traditional grassroots efforts.

“It is ironic that many lawmakers who campaigned on not raising taxes on the poor and middle class are now trying to increase the gas tax,” explained Mark Lucas, State Director of Americans for Prosperity – Iowa. “Less than three months later after their election, these same politicians are thinking about raising a tax that will fall particularly hard on poor and middle class Iowans.”

With pump prices at their highest level on record for this time of year, the stage is set for an even greater climb in gasoline prices and expenditures than in 2012.  Meanwhile politicians in Des Moines are mulling a gas tax increase when the state has close to a $1 billion budget surplus.

"The gas tax hike may not affect our legislators and the lobbyists in Des Moines. But it will crush many of our fellow Iowans.”

 

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