PA’s Johnny One-Note Dems Once Again Harp on Severance Tax

Here we go again. The shale-hating Democrats of the Pennsylvania legislature have floated a resolution to "study" how much money the Commonwealth is losing by not imposing an obscene severance tax on top of the existing impact fee (which is a severance tax by another name). Every single year Tom Wolf occupied the governor's chair (eight loooooong years), his budgets insisted on including a Marcellus-killing severance tax. And every single year, the Republican-controlled legislature wisely refused. With a new Democrat governor, Josh "do nothing" Shapiro, and with the Dems now controlling the House (by a single vote), they are at it again--hoping to enact a Marcellus-killing severance tax. The first step is to "study" it...

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