[thackney]

When the oil/gas drilling companies are trying to decide which areas they can afford to keep pursuing, and which areas to save for later, they mistakenly believe choking the golden goose will produce more eggs.

[Texas Eagle]

Somebody in gummint oughta look up the word "tax" some day in the dictionary.

They might be surprised it means things like, "choke", "throttle", "restrict", "burden", etc.

Only in Obonics does the word "tax" mean anything positive.

[EagleUSA]

Meanwhile, the United States continues to strangle itself with the world’s worst business taxation.....with zero regard for the consequences of same...

[Pietro]

What's driving this is envy.

The people that aren't directly making money from the gas boom feel they are being cheated, and they want their's damn it.

So what if it kills future drilling.

[Vigilanteman]

But Wolfie promised to give the schools all the money ObaMao gave them during Porkulus and he won!

I noticed our local high school still manages to pay a football coach an two assistants benefits and salary packages of over $100K each for a 3-10 record, but "saved money" by eliminating a popular foreign language program run by a teacher who earns less than $50K, but she kept her job because she teaches another less popular foreign language program which they kept. I wonder what they saved. The money spent for textbooks?

[grania]

uhhhh...the drillers are under economic threat from lower prices. Wouldn’t raising that tax force more people who now have jobs that pay well on to the unemployment lines, thus worsening Pennsylvania’s economy?

[Milton Miteybad]

Three days after the newly elected Senate majority leader opened the door to negotiations on a natural gas drilling tax...

So is it really a "drilling tax"? Like...assessed on a per foot basis, perhaps? Or is it really just a common, everyday severance tax on production at the wellhead, which many states already have?

And is the author of the article really a drooling simpleton for referring to a severance tax as a "natural gas drilling tax?"

[Qwackertoo]

I think they should tax & tax some more all blue states until the bleed red.

[kiryandil]

Legislators with new taxes are like monkeys on a new banana tree...