Norquist's Group Opposes Impact Fee

Governor Corbett’s famous “no new taxes” pledge may be kaput by week’s end, according to Capitolwire:

HARRISBURG (Feb. 6) – Americans for Tax Reform, who created the no-net-tax-hike pledge Gov. Tom Corbett signed in the 2010 campaign, says the Marcellus Shale fee deal struck by Corbett and legislative leaders is a pledge-breaking tax.
“In short and as with previous iterations [of shale fee and tax proposals], ATR opposes this unnecessary tax increase and, on behalf of our members in the commonwealth, urges legislators to vote no should it come up for a vote this evening,” Patrick Gleason, head of ATR’s Pennsylvania operation, wrote in an email.
Corbett and nearly three-dozen state lawmakers signed the pledge that they would not raise net taxes in the state.

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