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As it turns out, The Marcellus ShaleImpact Fee is redistributed by number of wells, yet

Philadelphia County and Bucks County, both of which have moratoriums (Act 87 of 2012for Bucks County) get millions despite hostility to Marcellus Shale drilling

Bucks: $530,461.69

Chester: $423,255.23

Delaware: $474,238.17

Montgomery: $678,613.66

Philadelphia: $1,294,664.55

Impact Fee Revenue Will Boost Conservation Efforts, MontCo Kate Harper

Says Pennsylvanias five southeastern counties will receive more than $3.4 million

in revenue from the collection of an impact fee on natural gas drilling activities in

the Marcellus Shale, said Rep. Kate Harper (R-Montgomery).The funding awarded

directly to the counties is just a small portion of the nearly $200 million in impact

fees collected so far this year. Additional revenue is dedicated to municipalities

where drilling is taking place; to state agencies for the regulation of drilling

activities and administration of the impact fee law; and to environmental

initiatives, such as the Environmental Stewardship Fund, Hazardous Sites Cleanup

Fund and county conservation districts. READ MORERep Kate Harper email

update

The Commonwealth Foundation provides an analysis with recommendations for areal impact fee, not a phony political impact fee.READ MOREFor More

Information seeEnergy In DepthandMarcellus Shale Coalition

No one has died, or even been sickened, by naturalgas drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and horizontal drilling. In fact, more people have

been hitby lighteningandmore here than by Marcellus Shale drilling.

Tier 3 Against Liberty A YEA vote deducts 50 points from grade.

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Act 16 of 2012 Feb

14 of 2012 SB 1237 Keystone Opportunity Zone for Shell Cracker Facility

The Liberty Index scores Act 16 of 2012 Tier 3 (Major Impact on Liberty)AGAINST LIBERTY and AGAINST THE FORGOTTEN TAXPAYER because it is gives a

special tax subsidy to one specific business, in effect, a tax cut for one business

not available to other productive businesses.

Senate Bill 1237(Act 16) adds a new Keystone Opportunity Zones (KOZ), tax free

areas designed to promote economic development; FISCAL NOTE HOUSE

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS describes Act in detail. SB 1237 appears to be

special legislation to benefit one company and one project.Is Corporate Welfare

for Shell Cracker Good for PA? Commonwealth Foundation March 19, 2012 by

Elizabeth Stelle Astute readers may remember that last month Pennsylvania

earned the dubious distinction of thehighest taxes for mature businessesand the

second highest taxes for new businesses. So how did Pennsylvania just beat out

Ohio and West Virginia for the Shell Oil Co. cracker plant that is estimated to

create more than10,000 construction and 10,000 permanent jobs?

ThePost Gazette has the answer, "Gov. Tom Corbett and his closest advisers

spent months wooing the company." In other words, corporate welfare.

Pennsylvania's corporate taxes are so awful that the Corbett administration had

to wine and dine company officials andhand over special tax exemptions and

subsidies to seal the deal.

The concept of Keystone Opportunity Zones is that lower taxes promote

productive growth. KOZs are problematic in that it is difficult to measure whether

the intended purpose has been achieved by targeted tax subsidy and if tax cut
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promotes jobs and an increased standard of living, why not tax cuts for all and let

a decentralized, diversified and independent individual human actors in the Free

Market make the decisions rather than a few Statist Elitist Technocratic by the

numbers Reality Based Central Planners.

Tier 3 Against Liberty A YEA vote deducts 50 points from grade.

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ACT 85 of 2012 July 2 2012HB 761

Tax Reform Code of 1971 contains both EITC and the Shell Cracker Tax Credit

and Subsidy.

The Liberty Index scores Act 122 of 2012 Tier 3 (Major Impact on Liberty)

AGAINST LIBERTY and AGAINST THE FORGOTTEN TAXPAYER because this

omnibus bill falls far short of what is needed to grow Pennsylvanias productive

economy. Like Act 25 of 2011 which gave the appearance of being taxpayer

friendly, Act 85 of 2012 misdirects and does little to effect hoped for results. Forexample, although Act 85 of 2012 doubles the Education Improvement Tax Credit

to $150,000,000 this is an infinitesimal percentage of the more than

$26,000,000,000spent by the unionized, government K-12 system. Omnibus Bills

are a Mixed Bag Three Card Monte good mixed with bag to swindle The

Forgotten Taxpayer.
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moratorium on natural gas drilling and a geological study of something

called the South Newark Basin.

Anti-drilling activists choked on their coffee the next morning.

For at least three years, the phrase drilling moratorium has been political

profanity among Republicans who control both chambers of the Legislature and

the Governors Residence

The only thing more shocking than a Republican-sponsored drilling moratorium

was where it was located: suburban Philadelphia, far outside the gas-rich

Marcellus Shale.

A week or so earlier, the U.S. Geological Survey had issued a report that estimated

that 363 billion cubic feet of natural gas might lie in a geologic formation calledthe South Newark Basin, which underlies portions of southern New Jersey and

Bucks, Montgomery and Berks counties in southeastern Pennsylvania.

To put things in perspective, thats less than half of 1 percent of all the gas the

USGS estimates to be in theMarcellus Shale.

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Oil and Gas Operations in the South Newark Basin prohibits the Department of

Environmental Protection from issuing any oil and gas well operations permits

within the geographic boundaries of the South Newark Basin until all the

following occurs: a study is completed by the Department of Conservation and

Natural Resources, in consultation with municipalities located in the South

Newark Basin, evaluating the practical resource recovery implications of the June

2012 report issued by the United States Geological Survey and the fiscal impact of

oil and gas operations on the South Newark Basin, and legislation authorizes the

governing body of a county situated in whole or in part within the South Newark

Basin that has spud gas well located within its borders to elect whether to impose

a fee on gas wells pursuant to 58 Pa.C.S. Ch. 23.

3) Harrisburg Bond Holder Bail Out of Financially Distressed Municipalitiesextends the expiration of this Article preventing third class cities, meaning
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the bankrupt City of Harrisburg, from filing for bankruptcy from July 1,

2012, to November 30, 2012. No adverse impact on Commonwealth funds

Tier 3 Against Liberty A YEA vote deducts 50 points from grade.*

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