PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR GIVES TAXPAYERS OPPORTUNITY TO DONATE TO SHELL OIL

[kpete]

HARRISBURG - A new proposal by Gov. Tom Corbett to give a long-term $1.7 billion state tax break for a planned Marcellus Shale gas petrochemical refinery in southwestern Pennsylvania is a late-emerging issue in the state budget debate.

The tax credit proposal for a $4 billion Shell Oil Co. plant came to light just as Corbett started negotiations last week with Republican legislative leaders over the final shape of the $27 billion state budget for fiscal 2012-13.

Lawmakers are pressing for more details about the proposal while at least two policy groups have criticized it as a corporate giveaway during a time when state aid to schools and human services is being cut.

http://thedailyreview.com/news/proposed-tax-break-for-shell-gas-cracker-plant-draws-debate-1.1327898
http://wonkette.com/475014/pennsylvania-governor-gives-taxpayers-opportunity-to-donate-to-shell-oil

[onehandle]

1. I'm going to love focusing on displacing this sack of shit from office in my new state. nt

[lookingfortruth]

3. +1

[no_hypocrisy]

2. More or less paying a corporation to make your water unpotable and your air not worthy of breath.

[freshwest]

4. This is exactly how corporate welfare should always be framed. Job creators, my behind!

[Fawke Em]

5. Why give subsidies to a company who would try to rape the

environment for cash, anyway?

Why does Shell Oil need an incentive? They go where the gas/oil is.

[Initech]

6. Big oil companies have more money than fucking god - why do we continue to give them breaks?

It certainly isn't jobs or wages. That's for damn sure.