Education Doing Just Fine Without Marcellus Tax in PA
Guess what's just happened? The fiscal year for Pennsylvania is in its last four months. Republicans held firm against an out-of-control-spending governor, Tom Wolf, with no increase in income taxes and no new Marcellus severance tax. And schools went on as they always do. Teachers taught, students learned. The educational Holocaust didn't happen without hundreds of millions of dollars being transferred from Marcellus drillers to teachers unions. And everything is just fine. Illustrating that Wolf lied about the need for a new/high severance tax. But don't worry, Democrats are consistent if anything. Wolf is absolutely insisting on a 6.5% severance tax this year, instead of the 5% severance tax he wanted last year. He's doubling down on the tax, even though it was just proved it's not needed...
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