Post by Logan on Mar 5, 2016 6:26:55 GMT -6
Midstate lawmakers rally against Gov. Tom Wolf's budget plan with proposed $2.7 billion in new taxes
HAMPDEN TWP. - If Gov. Tom Wolf hopes to rebuild the bipartisan coalition that almost delivered a compromise state budget proposal to Pennsylvania in December, lawmakers from the midstate sent this signal Friday:
Better start looking for Republican votes in other parts of the state.
Because to a person, eight House members from Cumberland, Dauphin, York, Adams, Lancaster and Lebanon counties said Friday, they are not interested in raising the personal income tax from 3.07 percent to 3.4 percent.
Or most other pieces of the governor's $2.7 billion tax increase package.
The setting was Kaplan's Careful Cleaners in Hampden Twp., where owner Dale Kaplan said the proposed 10.7 percent jump in the income tax, which he pays as a small businessman, will hurt his and his customers bottom line.
Read more: www.pennlive.com/news/2016/03/midstate_lawmakers_rally_again.html
HAMPDEN TWP. - If Gov. Tom Wolf hopes to rebuild the bipartisan coalition that almost delivered a compromise state budget proposal to Pennsylvania in December, lawmakers from the midstate sent this signal Friday:
Better start looking for Republican votes in other parts of the state.
Because to a person, eight House members from Cumberland, Dauphin, York, Adams, Lancaster and Lebanon counties said Friday, they are not interested in raising the personal income tax from 3.07 percent to 3.4 percent.
Or most other pieces of the governor's $2.7 billion tax increase package.
The setting was Kaplan's Careful Cleaners in Hampden Twp., where owner Dale Kaplan said the proposed 10.7 percent jump in the income tax, which he pays as a small businessman, will hurt his and his customers bottom line.
Read more: www.pennlive.com/news/2016/03/midstate_lawmakers_rally_again.html