Today, Todd Sharkey became one of only a handful of Ohio candidates and elected officials to sign the No Climate Tax Pledge from Americans for Prosperity:

No Climate Tax Pledge:
I,Todd Sharkey, pledge to the taxpayers of the state of Ohio and to the American people that I will oppose any legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in government revenue.

To date, Todd is the only candidate in the 13th District to sign the pledge, which is a commitment that all bills relating to climate change issues should be revenue neutral and should not increase the tax burden on the American people.

As the No Climate Tax site explains, "This is an effort to separate the tax question from the climate change issue.  Many climate change proposals at all levels of government include substantial increases in government revenues.  We don’t believe it is appropriate to hide tax hike in environmental bills.  These bills should be revenue neutral, holding taxpayers harmless by offsetting every dollar of revenue raised through environmental taxes and regulations with tax cuts.  This approach allows us to have open and honest debate about whether we should act on climate, as well as having open and honest, and quite separate, debate over the appropriate level of taxes."

Read the Press Release.