FreedomWorks Cheers Rep. Myrick on Letter on N.C. Gas Tax

Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., has ramped up the fight over North Carolina’s gas tax, criticizing the General Assembly’s top two Democrats for seeking federal assistance to combat rising prices at the pump.

Senate leader Marc Basnight, D-Dare, and House Speaker Jim Black, D-Mecklenburg, wrote to all 14 members of North Carolina’s congressional delegation late last week about rising fuel prices.

Myrick shot back with her own letter the next day, saying no higher tax would have been needed had they prevented more than $500 million from being transferred from the Highway Trust Fund to the general operating fund since 2001.

“The first step in recovery is to acknowledge you have a problem,” Myrick wrote Friday. “Your actions are the problem. I reject your effort to deflect this problem to the federal government.”