Some of Gov. Tom Wolf's friends in organized labor are making
some noise about the lack of a Marcellus Shale drilling tax in the emerging
Pennsylvania state budget framework.
About three dozen members of Philadelphia school
district's blue-collar union marched on the Capitol in Harrisburg Tuesday,
calling for the additional levy on the natural gas industry.
Energy companies successfully avoided an additional tax
in the tentative budget package still being negotiated between Wolf's
administration and Republican legislative leaders.
Opponents of the tax cited low natural gas prices and the
state's existing impact fee on each well drilled.
Denise Bennett has seen shale tax proposals come
and go while she's been a cleaner for the Philadelphia schools (she's had the
job 17 years), but she had hoped Wolf could secure the shale tax and do what he
promised on the campaign trail: find extra funding for education.
"The teachers are working hard, we're working hard,
and we need that funding for us to succeed," said Bennet. "That's why
I'm out here today -- to fight for my generation, the next generation, and
generation to come."
Go to Newsworks.org for details
on why some Philly lawmakers oppose the budget.
Source: Philadelphia
Business Journal
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