http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/48072932.html

The state budget has a tax on oil companies.  As proposed, the law prohibits oil companies from passing on the tax to consumers at the gas pump.  The problem is, and the Assembly rightly realized, is that such a law is unconstitutional.   They took out the part that prohibited the oil company from passing along the tax.

Now, Russ Decker thinks that he doesn’t have to follow the Constitution.  Well, when we’re refunding all of the tax collections from the new gas tax, I guess Decker will have to believe it when the state is refunding the tax to oil companies at 9% interest.  Is anyone even paying attention in the legislature any more? 

http://www.hamilton-consulting.com/updates/docs/foley_opinion-oil-tax.pdf