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19 year incumbent Representative Jerry Stern House District 80 Blair County (partHollidaysburg) is NOT The Forgotten Taxpayers Friend.

Act 16 of 2012 Feb 14 2012 SB 1237 Keystone Opportunity Zone - Shell Cracker Beaver County

The Liberty Index scores Act 16 of 2012 AGAINST LIBERTY because it politicizes economic decisions.

Government, not profit motivated, productive businesses, decide who is entitled to lower taxes. Corporate

Welfare corrupts both government and business.

A YEA vote was a vote AGAINST LIBERTY AND AGAINST THE FORGOTTEN TAXPAYER

Representative Jerry Stern voted YEA AGAINST LIBERTY AND AGAINST THE FORGOTTEN TAXPAYER

Only The Forgotten Taxpayers FriendSenator John Eichelberger, in

the General Assembly, voted NAY !!!

If lower taxes for some businesses create productive growth, would not lower taxes for all promote even more

growth?

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Lower taxes for all is what the Pennsylvania Constitution required under the Uniformity Clause:

TAXATION AND FINANCE Uniformity of Taxation Section 1 All taxes shall be uniform, upon the same class of subjects, within the territorial limits of the authority

levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under general laws.

And then.. the bad news Exemptions and Special Provisions

Section 2

Usually, Keystone Opportunity Zones exempt business from taxes for a period of ten years, includingexemptions for Sales and Use Taxes, however, Act 16of 2012 creates subsection (a)(3) under Section 301.4 to

permit a business located in an additional KOEZ that makes an investment of at least $1 billion and creates at

least 400 new full-time jobs in one or more zones within seven years, to receive tax benefits for a period of 15

years from the date of occupancy.House Fiscal Note

This is Big Government Corporatism, a form of indirect socialism that politicizes economic decisions, and

allows government to grow at the expense of productive Free Market and individual businesses and citizens.

Corporate Welfare corrupts both politics and business and all the worse when it is Bipartisan Corporate

Welfare. READ MORE Is Corporate Welfare for Shell Cracker Good for PA? MARCH 19, 2012 Elizabeth Stelle

And it gets worse.

Big government, big business, big labor back $1.65B tax credit for big oilREAD MORE PaIndependent 20 June

2012 Eric Boehm

Marcellus Drilling News 1 July 2012is ecstatic: One of the biggest victories for Corbett in this years budget

(supported by both Republicans and Democrats) was the passage of a tax credit for Shell and other companies

who invest in an ethane cracker plant for the state

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