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Nelson votes for, Rubio against internet sales tax
Washington, DC
(Herald-Tribune)
Date added: May 08, 2013
-- A plan to allow states to charge sales taxes on internet purchases may have passed the U.S. Senate, but Sen. Marco Rubio and other Republicans are ripping the idea and raising doubts about whether the bill will ever by heard in the U.S. House. “The Internet sales tax is a terrible idea that will crush small businesses with the new burden of having to collect taxes from their out-of-state consumers,” Rubio, R-Florida, said in a statement sent to the media on Monday. “The Internet sales tax is nothing more than a money grab by tax-hungry state and local governments that are desperate ... (Continue Reading...)
Legislature adjourns 2013 session
Tallahassee, FL
(The Florida Current)
Date added: May 07, 2013
-- Leadership's harmony staves off a bitter end - Florida legislators passed a record $74.5 billion state budget and went home Friday. From Gov. Rick Scott's "State of the State" speech in the flower-bedecked House chamber on a chilly but festive morning March 5, to the traditional "sine die" hanky drop ceremony by the House and Senate sergeants-at-arms in the Capitol's fourth-floor rotunda at 7:16 p.m., contentious issues competed for attention. Less than two weeks before the session started, Scott stunned fellow conservative Republicans by reversing his opposition to expanding Medicaid coverage for about 1.2 million poor people -- a move that fell flat ... (Continue Reading...)
Major bills await Florida Legislature's final day
Tallahassee, FL
(The Sun Sentinel)
Date added: May 03, 2013
-- The Florida Legislature used its next-to-last day Thursday to pass a watered-down texting-while-driving ban, a plan to slim down the state-run Citizens Property Insurance and legislation that strips local governments of the power to impose sick-leave laws. But lawmakers will have to settle the fate today of a sweeping response to last year's elections meltdown; a plea by sports teams for hundreds of millions of dollars in tax subsidies; and a $74.5 billion spending plan that funds teacher raises, universities and Everglades cleanup alongside hometown pork. With one day left in the 2013 legislative session, a host of controversial measures — including tax ... (Continue Reading...)
