Issue Position: Creating and Protecting Jobs

Issue Position

Tariffs and embargoes only go so far in protecting existing jobs. We need to grow new jobs in our region, and that means a solid program going forward. Right now, Pennsylvania's 9.9 percent Corporate Net Income Tax is effectively the highest in the nation, sending all the wrong messages to companies considering a Pennsylvania location. Our impulse to tax, coupled with a lack of adequate career training has left us behind the eight ball when it comes to new jobs.

Right now, liberals in Harrisburg are fighting to add new taxes to our growing natural gas industry. Their extremist allies in the so-called environmental movement are pushing to shut down everything from natural gas wells to coal-fired power plants. We need a new direction that is job-friendly and that understands that a good-paying job beats a new tax any day.

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