{"id":3011,"date":"2010-10-12T16:16:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T20:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pennaction.org\/pablog\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2011-07-23T22:04:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T22:04:45","slug":"quack-attack-penn-action-labor-call-out-corbetts-plan-to-raise-taxes-on-working-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=3011","title":{"rendered":"Quack Attack: Penn ACTION & Labor call out Corbett\u2019s plan to raise taxes on working people"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Penn ACTION joined labor union activists launched a “Quack Attac” to in Williamport to protest Tom Corbett\u2019s proposal to increase the pay roll taxes on workers for purposes of repaying a $3 billion debt owed to the federal government for unemployment compensation.<\/p>\n

Corbett, who earlier this year took a no-tax pledge, has consistently denied the payment made by workers into the unemployment fund is a tax.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Marc Stier, leader of Penn ACTION said \u201cIf it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck \u2013it\u2019s a duck!\u201d \u201cTom Corbett cannot mask a payroll tax hike imposed on working people simply by calling it another name. He can\u2019t have his duck and eat it too,\u201d Stier said.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Patrick Gleason is a spokesperson for Americans for Tax Reform, the group that authored the no-tax pledge Corbett signed. agreed with Stier. Speaking about the Corbett\u2019s proposal, Gleason said, \u201cIt is what is commonly known as a payroll tax, and this is not a matter of dispute.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Corbett and Governor Chris Christie of New Jersery were\u00a0greeted by a coalition of citizen and labor
\nactivists armed with rubber ducks, hand-made signs and assorted other web-footed paraphernalia as the two Republican leaders converge on the Lycoming County Republican campaign headquarters for a Monday morning rally.<\/p>\n

Media coverage of the event can be found here<\/a>. Video of Corbett waffling on his tax pledge can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Penn ACTION joined labor union activists launched a “Quack Attac” to in Williamport to protest Tom Corbett\u2019s proposal to increase the pay roll taxes on workers for purposes of repaying a $3 billion debt owed to the federal government for unemployment compensation. Corbett, who earlier this year took a no-tax pledge, has consistently denied the payment made by workers into the unemployment fund is a tax.\u00a0 But Marc Stier, leader of Penn ACTION said \u201cIf it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck \u2013it\u2019s a duck!\u201d \u201cTom Corbett cannot mask a payroll tax hike imposed on working people simply by calling it another name. He can\u2019t have his duck and eat it too,\u201d Stier said. Patrick Gleason is a spokesperson for Americans for Tax Reform, the group that authored the no-tax pledge Corbett signed. agreed with Stier. Speaking about the Corbett\u2019s proposal, Gleason said,\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35YuU-Mz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5673,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions\/5673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}