New PA Poll Shows Vast Majority Favor Jobs Over Severance Tax

A newly released poll of Pennsylvania voters completely deflates the Democrat call for high taxes on Marcellus Shale drillers--and it has some Democrats, like reporters for the Harrisburg Patriot-News, scrambling to provide propaganda cover lest the truth become known. And what is that truth? Although a majority of voters in PA polled nominally "support" a severance tax (55%), when asked if such a tax were to result in job loss and drillers leaving the state, those same voters say they would NOT support a severance tax (58%). Huh. You don't hear that being reported by PA's mainstream media--unless it's "reporter" Matt Zencey bashing the poll with Democrat talking points...

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