From the PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE:
…Corbett had proposed a $66 million a year tax credit. That number was removed in the Senate. “There is no minimum or maximum,” Christiana said…
There’s no guarantee that the jobs will go to Pennsylvanians, said Rep. Mike Sturla, D-Lancaster. “One could live in Ohio or West Virginia and drive to Pennsylvania every day,” Sturla said…
Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski, D-Luzerne County, said an estimated $1.6 billion is going to a multi-national corporation that bought property already in a tax-free zone. Shell can “sell the tax credits without the guarantee of hiring Pennsylvanians,” Pashinski said…
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EDITOR: Shell already bought the land. Where else do you build a ‘cracker plant” except at the source of the gas? A $1.6 for Shell (with ample political contributions for the Republicans and who knows what else, and we fire teachers to save millions. It stinks!
