A Washington County lawmaker offered an amendment to a bill Tuesday that would have provided $25 million in tax credits to Marcellus Shale companies that hired 75 percent of its workforce from Pennsylvania—but it was voted down.
State Rep. Jesse White, D-Cecil, said Tuesday that the amendment, “which would have shown a real commitment to creating energy industry jobs for Pennsylvanians” was defeated along a party line procedural vote of 105-86.
“So we can give $1.6 billion in tax credits to the foreign corporations in the shale industry, but can't do a $2,500 per job credit for people who actually live, work and play taxes here?” White asked on his Facebook page Tuesday. “Today we blew a golden opportunity to procure jobs for PA workers in the energy industry. Where are our priorities?”
White offered similar legislation in 2010, which died due to lack of legislative action.
Second, neither the co-op or the Act 13 challenge were failures- quite the contrary. The co-op exposed the hypocrisy of how certain bad actors were treating municipalities which elevated the zoning issues of Act 13, and the Act 13 challenge was upheld by a Republican-led Commonwealth Court. The only people who would call them failures are people who work for those bad actor gas companies and troll around the internet with fake profiles spreading lies, so I can understand why you would both feel that way.
But you again avoided the question. What was the last piece of legislation that you introduced that received a majority of votes? Your silence on this topic is revealing.
As for the psyops comment, I think you doth protest too much. If you have any other questions for me, call my office at 724-746-3677, which we both know you would never have the guts to do.
They remind me of little kids where everything is "mine". No sharing allowed and certainly no thinking of what is best for the people they represent. Keep up the good work and hopefully this current black/white/right/wrong/Republican/Democrat mentality will change, but that's up to them. As for your Patch stalkers, I hope they are not getting paid well by the Gasholes for their blogging because they are not very good.
THANK YOU.
I notice White still hasn't answered a lot of questions. He has a habit of doing that. Hit and run tactics are for sissies. I'd like to know what will happen to the impact money White said repeatedly wouldn't be affected. I'd also like to know how act 13 will affect Shell. That's a lot of jobs and local money that will disappear. I also want to know how a 2500 dollar incentive helps any company if applicants can't get a CDL or work on a rig because they can't pass a drug test. Finally, I'd like to know why this is always a personal me versus them tone. You're supposed to be a representative, Mr. White. So grow up and start acting like one.
I wish people in your district would pay attention to how you spend your time. You're like a moody teenager. No, you're like the short fat kid in grade school who would go tell Johnny "hey, Tommy said you dress funny"...then you'd go over and tell Tommy, "Johnny said you smell". Just as those two were about to fight, they'd stop and look at you and you'd run away. You spend a great deal of time on this site. It would explain why you never get any legislation passed except tax credits for dog adoption. That's pretty vital to the local economy, I realize but maybe you could step it up in terms of productivity. Based ion the guy who wrote about your 4 percent success rate, maybe you should rename your self-labeled district as the "Failing Four". Grow up.
Take it back to the issue: the gas companies pitched shale gas extraction to PA residents with two main arguments: 1. jobs for PA; and 2. energy security (meaning the gas that was extracted here [in the U.S.] would stay here [in the U.S.]. The jobs aren't adding up. Not in compiled reports of actual employment data, and not in PA residents' everyday experience (for example, seeing the large numbers of vehicles with TX, OK, WY, etc. license plates that have appeared in the last couple of years). Or was this yet another very carefully worded, deliberately misleading statement by the gas companies - "there are more workers in PA, we never actually SAID they would be PA residents"? (The energy security isn't adding up, either.) As for Jesse White, he seems to be asking EXACTLY some of the questions that need to be asked.
And I didn't ask for a debate. I asked for answers. There's a difference. White has been quoted on this site in the past as saying the impact fee wouldn't be effected no matter what. Recently he said because someone followed the law and asked for a review of the townships regulations the impact money would be held up. I've asked twice which one it is. That's not a debate. If white doesnt want to provide answers maybe he should stay off public sites like this. Nevermind that he's happy to keep taking that state paycheck and I'm sure he'll be happy to collect that state pension without any argument but when someone asks him to explain himself he calls them names and hides. I can't be the only one who sees something wrong with that.