July 31, 2007 08:30 PM UTC

More Rocky Mountain Republicans Rejecting Grover Norquist-ism

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• by: davidsirota

Over the last month, I’ve written a series of posts about how Rocky Mountain voters – and even some Rocky Mountain Republican officials – are rejecting the Washington-based conservative movement’s economic zealotry, and specifically its cut-taxes-at-all-cost religion. Now it looks like that’s happening in the reddest of red states, Wyoming. The Associated Press reports that the state’s Republican-dominated legislature is moving a bill “to increase the tax on gasoline and diesel fuel by 10 cents phased in over three years.” The Wyoming GOP also voted “to increase driver’s license and other fees by 70 percent.”

These tax and fee increases, of course, are wildly regressive in that they hit low and middle income people harder as a percentage of their income than they hit wealthy folks. But the fact that they are being pushed by the Republicans in one of the most Republican states in the nation is just more evidence that Grover Norquist and his economic fundamentalism is being rejected even by his own ideological cronies.