A vote on Gov. Tom Wolf’s big bad tax hike is scheduled for today, Oct. 7. The governor says he needs it fund education. No, what he wants it for is to fund government income including that of retirees some of whom have pensions of close to a half million dollars.
Gov. Wolf wants to take money from elderly people on fixed income, working class couples worried about how to pay for their kids college and the out-of-work and give it to rich people.
That is corruption. It’s not illegal corruption, obviously. The law is written to allow for this. But it is corruption nevertheless.
By the way, with regard for the need for more money for “education”, it has been revealed that those we have tasked with protecting it have not been all that interested in doing their job.
Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale has released a report saying that the state Department of Education is beset by apathy, and mired in bureaucratic ineptness.
It is obvious that if those in charge of education were doing the job they were supposed to we would not need more taxes on the little guy to pay for the rich people’s pensions.
Tax Poor Help Rich
What we need is a severe cut in the bloated wages of government drones. What he wants is to take money from retirees trying to make it on meager Social Security income and give to overpaid and inept teachers.
What we need is school choice and a voucher system where each pupil is an allotted a fee to allow him or her to attend whatever school they want.
Some of the teachers and principals are getting over $200,000 dollar annual pensions.
Let’s go for school choice and vouchers.
While we are at it let’s also install term limits on all elected government officials.
Hey! I can dream can’t I?