"A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy."Benjamin Disraeli, speech in the House of Commons, Mar. 3, 1845
Tea Party Republican Tom Corbett continues his scorched earth campaign as governor of Pennsylvania. He is gutting education and public services while handing out over $300 million in new tax cuts for corporations. He also takes organized hypocrisy to astonishing new heights. An article in the Philadelphia Inquirer lays out Corbett's faux fiscal conservativism in exquisite detail.
As new taxes go, a levy on natural-gas drilling in Pennsylvania would seem like a pretty easy political sell. Two-thirds of the state's voters support the idea, several polls indicate. Politicians are desperate for money to plug a $4 billion budget gap and prevent deep cuts in the state college system and other programs.Philadelphia Inquirer, March 28, article by Joseph Tanfani and Angela Couloumbis
Pennsylvania remains the only state the refuses to tax shale gas revenue. Tom Corbett sees his opposition to raising revenues from shale gas as proof of his Tea Party bona fides. Let's tip-toe through the teabags.
