Governor hopefuls target tax talk at middle class

STATE.COM / AP: …An attack ad for Republican incumbent Tom Corbett warns voters that his Democratic challenger, Tom Wolf, wants to “raise the state income tax on many middle-class Pennsylvania families.”

“Get real,” Wolf responds in a counterattack ad. “It’s Tom Corbett who’s been sticking it to the middle class on taxes.”

Yet what constitutes the middle class is mainly in the eye of the beholder, making the issue excellent fodder for political rhetoric… (more)