Pennsylvania's auditor general, Jack Wagner, is doing a rethinkor a "clarification" on his proposal last month to look at taxingcredit unions as a way of helping solve the state's budgetimpasse.

In a letter sent Tuesday to James McCormack, president/CEO ofthe Pennsylvania Credit Union Association, Wagner wrote that insuggesting taxing non-profits including CUs he did not specificallyname CUs in a proposal submitted to Gov. Edward Rendell.

"Nor did I dispute" the value of CUs to the state's economy,wrote Wagner, "or suggest they do not focus on service to theirmembers."

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