Re: RE: Re: Energy deregulation GATS

2001-01-23 Thread Jim Devine
then, make it a refundable tax credit, or lower the state sales tax further. At 11:55 AM 1/23/01 -0500, you wrote: problem is a lot of folks pay little or no income tax but still pay utility bills. mbs It seems to me that Governor Gray Davis has a easy solution to the current energy crunch,

Re: Re: RE: Re: Energy deregulation GATS

2001-01-23 Thread Eugene Coyle
Just quickly: Jim, are you proposing to funnel public money to the utilities by them charging customers higher prices and then the customers get re-imbursed out of the state treasury? Utilities get more money, customers come out even, but taxpayers pay? Not very appealing to me. For