WE FINALLY HAVE OUR ANSWER: PAT TOOMEY DOES NOT SUPPORT CREATING PENNSYLVANIA JOBS
Pennsylvania Has Over 560,000 Unemployed Residents, But Toomey Unwilling To Support Commonsense Measures To Create Good Pennsylvania Jobs
Pennsylvania families struggling with unemployment and economic challenges got their answer today on if Senate candidate Pat Toomey would support a job creation bill - a resounding No. After two long weeks, Toomey finally responded to requests for his position on the bipartisan jobs bill, which passed the Senate and House on a bipartisan basis, and that promises to bring many good jobs to Pennsylvania and over one million new jobs across the country. Despite the bill’s promise of creating new jobs, Toomey told the Allentown Morning Call that he would have voted to kill the bill had he been in the Senate.
"After two long weeks of waiting, we finally now know what Pat Toomey’s jobs plan is for Pennsylvania – do absolutely nothing, while opposing every commonsense, bipartisan measure to jumpstart job creation,” said DSCC National Press Secretary Deirdre Murphy. “Every time he opposes measures to help Pennsylvania families, Pat Toomey just shows he is completely out of touch with everyday Pennsylvanians. “
The HIRE Act, which Toomey finally came out in opposition to today, has four key provisions, including a payroll tax holiday for businesses to encourage hiring, additional funds to help small businesses expand, an extension of the Highway Trust Fund to allow more infrastructure investments, and an expansion of the Build America Bonds program to allow states finance infrastructure projects. According to a new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which Toomey also opposed, created over 2 million jobs last year, has boosted the US economy by 3.5%, and has lowered the unemployment rate by up to 2.1%. The CBO projects that the stimulus will have an even greater impact in 2010.
Allentown Morning Call: Toomey would not have voted for jobs bill
Colby Itkowitz
March 11, 2010
Republican Senate candidate, Pat Toomey, said today for the first time that he would have joined most of his Republican colleagues and voted against Congress' recent jobs bill.
In a statement from his campaign, Toomey says the bill, which passed the Senate on Wednesday, does little to create any new jobs and then slammed Sen. Arlen Specter for supporting costly Democratic priorities.
“The so-called Hire Act contains a net tax increase, does not eliminate earmarks, and employs badly designed tax incentives that will do little to create new jobs," the campaign says. "Pat would have opposed this bill and replaced it with one that actually creates jobs. If Senator Specter and his new Democratic cronies are truly interested in job creation, they should stop supporting the massive new taxes on businesses contained in the health care and cap-and-trade bills.”
The PA Dems can take down their Toomey Ticker now, I suppose, that gauged how long it had been since Toomey had first refused to respond about the jobs legislation.
It had been about two weeks.
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