Politics & Government 4:49 pm Thu June 13, 2013  Rucho Resigns
From Senate Committee  NC General Assembly, Senator Rucho Credit
NC General Assembly Senator Bob Rucho  The co-chair of the
Senate Finance Committee has resigned from that group to protest
changes to his legislative body's tax reform plan.  Senator Bob
Rucho submitted his resignation letter to Senate President Phil
Berger earlier this week. Rucho was the main architect of a
Senate tax reform proposal that would have expanded the sales
tax while lowering personal and corporate income tax rates.  But
Berger put forth an alternate plan that would repeal corporate
taxes without expanding the sales tax base as extensively. Rucho
says he was disappointed by the move.  "And by saying you know
we don't want to broaden base, we don't want to tax services, we
don't want to do all of the parts of the comprehensive tax plan
that will make it work, forced Berger into saying well we need
to have a compromise bill, and when they did that they basically
gutted wh