Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration and its allies are working to sway enough rank-and-file House Republicans behind a $1 billion-plus tax increase to override opposition from House GOP leaders and end the five-and-a-half month budget stalemate.
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House Majority Leader Dave Reed, who argued strongly for the bill, says the next move will be to advance a stopgap budget. If the House approves the pension bill Saturday, a tax vote could soon follow.
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At the time it passed the Senate, the spending plan supported by Mr. Wolf, Senate leaders and House Democratic leaders would have required about $1.2 billion in additional annual revenue.
Wolf’s press secretary Jeff Sheridan told The Associated Press on Friday that the office is confident that it has the votes to pass the legislation.
“We’ll see how everything turns out”, he said in a brief interview in the Capitol.
Senate Republican support for a tax increase hinges on House passage of legislation to restructure pension benefits for state government and public school employees. It was being written Thursday night and, in addition to a personal income tax increase, it was expected to increase taxes on cigarettes and banks. Majority Leader Jake Corman, R-Centre, said the next move should be for the House to send over a full-year budget without any tax increases.
Several leaders said the mix of taxes remained a work in progress Saturday and it wasn’t a sure thing that a vote would happen later in the day.
“I think we need to take the compromise proposal seriously”, Barrar said.
Lawmakers thinking about voting for the tax increase are also thinking about the February 16 filing deadline to get on the primary ballot, and the potential that a tax increase fresh in the minds of voters would doom them to a successful challenge from the right.
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Wolf has demanded a tax increase to help wipe out deep public school funding cuts made in 2011 while meeting counties’ requests for an increase in social services aid and narrowing a long-term budget deficit.
