Ohio lawmakers who oppose fracking tax have gotten lots of money from frackers

Grist: Oil and gas companies have been on a fracking spree in Ohio for a couple of years now, but they`re not bringing many jobs to the state, so Republican Gov. John Kasich has been trying to get them to give back in another way: via a fracking tax. Under Kasich`s proposal, revenue from the fracking tax would be used to reduce income taxes, an idea that proved overwhelmingly popular with voters, including many Republicans. And the tax would be in line with those imposed by most other oil- and gas-producing......

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