As election approaches, Wolf changes tune on taxes

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n this year’s proclamation issued by Governor Tom Wolf, which declares November 2018 as Assistive Technology Awareness Month in Pennsylvania, assistive technology devices and services are recognized as tools that empower people to control their lives and their futures. (Photo courtesy of flickr.com.)

Pennsylvania Gov.Tom Wolf proposed raising the state’s personal income tax and the state sales tax during his first term, but now, as his campaign for re-election is heating up, he appears to be bragging that the state’s tax rates have not changed.

Wolf’s challenger, Scott Wagner, has jumped on the shift in tax talk, writes Alison Burdo at bizjournals.com.

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“The tax when I got here, the personal income tax, was 3.07 percent. It’s still 3.07. The sales tax was 6. It’s still 6,” Wolf has told reporters.

Wagner is criticizing his opponent for the apparent shift in perspective on standing tax rates that he once tried to raise.

Several times under Wolf’s watch, the state went without a budget for months. Last year, he eventually relented and signed on to the Republican-backed ideas to adjust casino operations in Pennsylvania and agreed to borrowing heavily to cover a huge shortfall.

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