Despite McGinty’s best attempts to backtrack on her own policies, her record rings loud and clear.
In a story following one of Toomey’s campaign visits, a local small business owner discussed the effects of the sluggish Obama economy and rising health care costs as a result of Obamacare and how those factors have impacted his ability to hire new employees and run a successful company.
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Toomey rips McGinty in stop at Glenolden auto shop
[*Delaware County Daily Times
U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., made a stop on Chester Pike Thursday to talk about small business in Pennsylvania and what he says needs to be done to give employers, like that of Tom Danzi at Suburban Collision Specialists, the opportunity to thrive.
“Without small businesses we would not have a thriving middle class,” Toomey said.
Toomey went on the offensive Thursday afternoon from within Danzi’s shop, challenging his Democratic opponent Katie McGinty about her record as Gov. Tom Wolf’s chief of staff.
“She worked with Gov. Wolf to propose the biggest tax increase on Pennsylvanians since the creation of the income tax,” Toomey said, mentioning the historic budget impasse in 2014. “Everyone in Pennsylvania who has a job has to pay that income tax. She proposed a tax increase on every working Pennsylvanian.”
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Yet, Danzi said it’s not tax loopholes that have caused his business to suffer in recent years, but rather a slow rebound from the most recent recession and difficulty making new hires because of the rising costs of health coverage for employees.
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And even when times are good and business seems strong, he said because of the health care costs he can’t hire new full-time employees.
“We can’t afford to add them to the rolls,” Danzi said.
Toomey spoke strongly on the topic of deregulation.
“The combination of the burden of all the taxes we’re forced to pay and the regulations that have grown massively in the last eight years explains the miserable economy we had,” Toomey said.
Danzi said he was a proponent of the alternative minimum tax, a supplemental income tax for certain individuals, corporations, estates and trusts that have exemptions or special circumstances for lower payments of stand income tax, which Toomey has voted in favor.
“I’ve been doing this for 30-some years and when the economy is good we’re busy, we’re making money, and the employees are making more money,” Danzi said. “Right now that isn’t happening.”
Toomey suggested that McGinty’s policies would cost Pennsylvania’s economy more than $20 billion a year and would cost Pennsylvania 66,000 jobs.
“I’m calling on Katie McGinty to end her support for ever-higher taxes on the working and middle class families … because Pennsylvanians can’t afford it,” Toomey said.
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