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The Charleston Gazette -- The Center, a progressive think tank, proposed last week that West Virginia impose an additional one percent severance tax on coal and natural gas to funnel money to a similar project, which could raise $5.8 billion in revenue over the next quarter-century. Read
The State Journal -- According to an assessment by the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, the cracker would forego revenues of about $303.9 million as a result of the tax incentive. Read
Public News Service -- The West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy estimates a one percent hike in severance taxes on gas and coal would yield $35 billion over the next 23 years. Read
The Charleston Gazette -- West Virginia should start an "Economic Diversification Trust Fund," using extra severance taxes from gas, oil and coal. That's a suggestion by the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. It recommends a trust fund modeled after those created in mostly Western states in the 1970s. Read
The State Journal -- The fiscal note attached to the ethane cracker tax incentive in the West Virginia Legislature reads $0, but a more accurate number, a progressive policy analyst group says, would be closer to $300 million. Read
The Charleston Gazette - Sustained Outrage -- The good folks at the West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy have a fascinating report out this morning that examines the potential costs – in revenues lost to local governments and school systems — because of the Legislature's big rush to pass Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's tax…
The Charleston Gazette -- Tomblin rejected the proposal floated earlier this week in a report from the West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy. The Center said an additional one percent severance tax on coal and natural gas could raise $5.8 billion in revenue over the next quarter-century. Read
The Charleston Gazette -- "How can we make sure that Marcellus Shale benefits working people and future generations?" Ted Boettner, Executive Director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy asked. Read
AP, Fox News -- Boettner said his group isn't against a cracker plant coming to the region, but it wants to make clear that someone has to pay for local infrastructure costs. Read