From the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER:
The most powerful person in the state Capitol these days might not be the governor or any of his top deputies or even anyone from Pennsylvania.
It might just be Grover Norquist. His Washington-based group Americans for Tax Reform has persuaded hundreds of elected officials – Gov. Corbett among them – to sign a 25-year-old pledge to constituents that they will not raise or create any taxes.
In Pennsylvania, that pledge now drives much of the politics and policy emanating from the statehouse. From the budget battle to the debate over whether to tax drilling in the Marcellus Shale, it has become the standard against which new proposals are measured…
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