Tom Waring, the Wire
Megan Sweeney, communications director for the Republican Party of Pennsylvania, released a statement following comments by Lt. Gov. Mike Stack on Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to expand the sales tax.
During a March 4 appearance on Pennsylvania Cable Network’s call-in program, Stack answered a caller’s question regarding the Wolf tax hike on over-the-counter medications by saying, “I think the bottom line is, what Tom Wolf wants to do is he wants to dramatically change the climate of how we do things in Pennsylvania, and I know, you’re talking about a thing that affects a lot of, a lot of consumers, a lot of people out there where it’s just, you feel like it’s additional revenue that you’re going to have to pay and it’s frustrating and annoying.”
“Even Tom Wolf’s own lieutenant governor knows how ‘frustrating and annoying’ the Wolf tax hikes will be for Pennsylvanians,” Sweeney said. “Gov. Tom Wolf’s tax hikes are the largest in Pennsylvania’s history, and raise the costs on items such as child care, newspapers and over-the-counter drugs. Now, Tom Wolf’s own lieutenant governor is admitting that Pennsylvania consumers will find the Wolf tax hikes ‘frustrating and annoying.’”
