Regional tax for rail line may include York

If York County joins a move to add up to 1 cent to the state's sales tax, county residents would pay roughly $17 million to the total revenue collected in the region.

The sales-tax proposal is designed to raise money for a commuter railroad line, as well as museums, arts organizations and other causes in the area.

If the new tax also covered York, it would raise more than $83 million a year for the region, said Neal West, chairman of a task force that developed the tax proposal.

If the tax is a full I percent, about onethird of the new revenue, or $27.3 million, would come from Lancaster County, West said, based on rough estimates. Dauphin would collect $21.3 million, …