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Oct 1, 2022 · Updated: Sep 30, 2022 / 09:00 PM CDT. ( NewsNation) — Both Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Democratic gubernatorial challenger Beto O’Rourke claimed they would lower property taxes in Texas if elected in November in response to a NewsNation viewer question at their only debate Friday night.
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- Doug Mastriano, Republican
- Josh Shapiro, Democrat
- Christina “PK” Digiulio, Green Party
- Matt Hackenburg, Libertarian
- Joe Soloski, Keystone Party
- Abortion
- Economy and Jobs
- Education
- Election Administration
The retired Army colonel from Franklin County has spent the majority of his career in the military, becoming an elected official in 2019 when he joined the state Senate. Mastriano has rejected interview requests from most mainstream media outlets, and has consistently blocked reporters from gaining access to his campaign stops. On his official webs...
Pennsylvania’s current attorney general, Shapiro has spent most of his professional career in government or public office. He got his start in the 1990s in Washington, D.C., where he worked for a member of Congress and two U.S. senators. In 2004, he was elected to Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives, where he served four terms — or eight years ...
DiGiulio is a former analytical chemist for the U.S. Department of Defense and a vocal opponent of the Mariner East pipeline system. She co-founded Watchdogs of Southeastern Pennsylvania, a group that documents the harms of oil and gas infrastructure, and the Better Path Coalition, an alliance of pro-renewable energy organizations. Digiulio’s platf...
Hackenburg is a computer engineer from Northampton County. A former member of the Army National Guard, he argues that states should have the ability to nullify federal laws they disagree with, including passing laws that prevent guard members from being deployed overseas without a declaration of war and encouraging the use of precious metals and cr...
Soloski is a public accountant and Centre County resident. He ran his own accounting firm for 30 years in the Pittsburgh area, and he’s worked as a comptroller and financial analyst for other companies. Soloski’s platform calls for limiting government spending, keeping the minimum wage as is, reducing corporate taxes, and decriminalizing recreation...
Mastriano has called abortion his “No. 1 issue” and compared the effort to ban the procedure to the fight to end the slave trade during an April primary debate. He has twice introducedlegislation that would ban abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, and does not support exceptions for rape, incest, or parental health. Shapiro has condemned the U.S....
Mastriano has said he would establish a “strike force” within each state agency that would aim to slash at least 55,000 statewide regulations in his first year in office. He also wants to work with the legislature to eliminate two regulations for every new one created. He has said he would lift certain taxes and regulations on natural gas drillers,...
Mastriano said in a March radio interview that he wants to reduce state per-student public school funding from $19,000 to $10,000 a year, while creating education opportunity accounts,” or a restricted fund that parents can use to fund their child’s education at a public or private school. He wants to ban“critical race theory” curricula — an academ...
Mastriano supports repealing Act 77, the 2019 law that allows any voter to cast a ballot by mail. He wants to enact “universal ID” for voting (Pennsylvania already requires people to show ID if they are first-time voters or voting for the first time at a polling place). He also wants every eligible voter in Pennsylvania to re-register, a proposal t...
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Oct 1, 2022 · O’Rourke pointed to that Friday saying the total property tax levy in Texas has gone up $20 billion with Abbott in the governor’s office. “You want more property taxes, elect Gov. Abbott ...
Feb 11, 2022 · Republican Greg Abbott. Greg Abbott has been serving as governor of Texas since 2015 and is currently running for his third term in office. He has also served as Texas Attorney General from 2002 ...
Oct 25, 2022 · Shapiro says it should be reduced to 4% by 2025. Mastriano wants to lower it to 2.4% by 2026 — or by 2030, if lawmakers won’t agree to cut it more quickly. Mastriano’s plan would make Pennsylvania’s tax rate the lowest in the nation, according to a Tax Foundation comparison of state rates as of July.
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Dec 13, 2021 · Texas taxpayers have earned tax relief and insuring they are not overburdened with taxes is the most critical role of for a governor In most states, governors have the power to make line-item vetoes.
Oct 27, 2022 · That would make Pennsylvania’s tax rate the ninth-lowest in the country, compared to other current rates, according to the Tax Foundation, a Washington, D.C., think tank. Mastriano and Shapiro both support the change but want the tax rate to be cut further and faster.
