OH County Commissioner Says ‘No Thanks’ to Severance Tax Increase

A lone voice crying in the wilderness! Amid all of the calls for more socialism--redistributing the hard-earned money from landowners and drilling companies to people who didn't earn it via a higher severance tax--a Washington County, OH commissioner says "No!" He says raising the severance tax is a fundamentally bad idea and he does not endorse the Republicans' dalliance with the idea. And so we bring you a letter to the editor reprinted in the Parkersburg (WV) News and Sentinel from Washington County, OH commissioner Ron Feathers, a man we salute!...

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