Tom Corbett Flip Flops on No Tax Pledge on Unemployment Compensation Debt

Corbett Says He Would Support Taxing Worker Paychecks and Cutting Benefits but Taxing Big Business is NOT AN OPTION

HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President Richard Bloomingdale said today that Tom Corbett engaged in a classic political flip flop during the recent gubernatorial debate by saying that he would be open to increasing taxes on workers' paychecks to repay the Pennsylvania's unemployment debt to the federal government but taxing corporations is not an option.

In responding to a series of options for repaying the debt Tom Corbett claimed that he has taken a no tax pledge and then he goes on to say that he would be open to raising payroll taxes on workers and cutting unemployment checks. Then in the very next sentence he stated that increasing taxes on business is not an option.

"In other words it's fine to increase taxes on middle class working families and to cut their unemployment checks to repay the federal government but it is unacceptable to raise taxes on business," Bloomingdale said.

"I guess that in Tom Corbett's mind this is the meaning of a no tax pledge. It only applies to big corporations but doesn't apply to the working families of Pennsylvania. This is a classic case of a politician speaking out of both sides of his mouth and another indication that Big Business would be first and foremost in a Corbett Administration while workers are left shouldering all of the burden," Bloomingdale said.

SOURCE Pennsylvania AFL-CIO

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