HARRISBURG — A measure combining all of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposed tax increases went down unanimously Monday in the state House, but Republicans and Democrats had much different reasons for voting against it.

Republicans brought up their own tax amendment to make a point about the viability of the spending plan that Wolf proposed in March along with higher taxes on retail sales, personal income and drilling in the Marcellus Shale natural gas formation.

“It’s only fair that, in order to have a balanced budget, we air our differences and make sure that the taxpayers of Pennsylvania know how the governor’s spending plan will be paid for,” said Rep. Bill Adolph, R-Delaware, who chairs the Appropriations Committee.

The issue arose after Republicans introduced the current year’s budget as a placeholder, to meet advance-notice rules in the annual budget process that is now less than a month away from a soft deadline of June 30.

Adolph’s Democratic counterpart, Rep. Joe Markosek of Allegheny County, then sought to amend it with Wolf’s spending proposal.

“In a year when the economy has turned around, unemployment has come down, we are running a huge deficit,” Markosek said. “It’s not because the people in Pennsylvania aren’t doing well, it’s because of the past budgets that are basically phony that we ended up in the situation that we are in now. It didn’t work. And here we are today, doing the same thing.”

Republicans, as the chamber’s majority party, were able to set aside Markosek’s amendment and instead brought up the Wolf tax package, which sponsor Rep. Seth Grove, R-York, said amounts to $12.7 billion over the next two years, although that figure includes money that would cut local property taxes.

“If colleagues want that level of funding for those line items, this is your opportunity,” Grove said, adding his goal was to “find out exactly where we are on tax and spend policy.”

Minority Leader Frank Dermody, D-Allegheny, called the Grove proposal “pure politics” before his members joined Republicans to defeat it, 193-0.

“It has nothing to do with the budget priorities of the people of this commonwealth,” he said.