New Wolf Budget Also Burdens Little Guy By Matthew J. Brouillette
Yesterday, Feb. 9, Gov. Wolf doubled down on his tax-and-spend agenda. Here are five facts you need to know about how Gov. Wolf’s budget would affect your family and our state:
1. It’s more of the same. Wolf’s proposed budget mirrors what he repeatedly offered—and lawmakers repeatedly rejected—last year: Massive tax hikes and record spending increases.
2. It’s the biggest spending increase in 25 years. Wolf’s $33.3 billion General Fund budget (including pension payments) represents a 10% increase over the budget passed by the legislature in December and is the bgigest spending increase since 1991-92.
3. Wolf’s tax hike = $850 more per family four annually.
4. Wolf’s budget includes $1.1 billion more for public schools, on top of the record-high level of funding passed by the legislature in December. This comes with no accountability measures and with punitive cuts to public charter schools.
5. At least eight different tax hikes are in the budget. This includes an 11% personal income tax hike—retroactive to January 2016 (in other words, you already owe the state more taxes).
Wolf talked about ‘saving’ the taxpayers of Pennsylvania. Instead, he’s taxing us backwards and forwards.
Business As Usual Gets Spanked In New Hampshire — Those OK with business as usual in Washington got a severe spanking in New Hampshire last night, Feb. 9.
In the Democrat presidential primary, socialist outsider Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont crushed Hillary Clinton 60 percent to 38 percent.
Yes Mrs. Clinton, Bernie said “live free” and you died. The whole house came down on your head. You could almost hear the little people singing “ding dong” as they danced and pointed the way to the Yellow Brick Road.
In second place, was John Kasich whose 16 percent of the vote got him three delegates. Kasich was a congressman for 22 years including six years as chairman of the House Budget Committee before declining to run for re-election in 2000. After stints as a Fox News commentator and as an investment banker, he re-entered politics in 2010 winning the Ohio gubernatorial election. He easily won re-election in 2014. His strong finish last night is being attributed to a strong debate performance.
Kasich is a native of Pennsylvania. If he should win the White House, it would the first time a native of the state held the presidency since the disgraceful James Buchanan in 1861.
Ted Cruz, who as gotten under the skin of just about every Washington insider in his first term as Texas senator, came in third with 12 percent of the vote giving him two delegates.
Getting under the skin of Washington insiders is a good thing.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush got 11 percent of the vote which also netted him two delegates in his hopefully Quixotic quest to continue the family dynasty.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio finished fourth with also about 11 percent of the vote but got zero delegates. He was followed by New York Gov.Chris Christie at 8 percent; businesswoman Carly Fiorina, exposure to whom the establishment media wants to minimize as she is a woman who could actually handle the job, at 4 percent; surgeon Ben Carson, at 2 percent; and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul at 1 percent despite dropping out of the race. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum got token votes despite also have dropped out.
Turnout was record-setting in the Republican race whereas it was down on the D side.
There is still a long way to go as 1,144 delegates are needed to win the GOP nomination and 2,382 are needed to lead the Democratic ticket.
Donna Ellingsen, an anti-corruption committeewoman from Elks Township.
Chesco Inquisition Postponed Again — The inquisition being sought by the leaders of the Chester County Republican that appears to be part of a purge of anti-corruption activists has again been postponed this time at the request of party bosses
The most recent scheduling had been for Thursday, Feb. 11.
Four committeepeople — Jane Ladley, Tom Ferro, Steve Mobley and Donna Ellingsen — are accused of violating party bylaws for supporting candidates other than the nominated ones.
He stands by his woman because she stood by him against Juanita and Paula and . . .
Hillary Women Voters Failure — While the embittered stupid people who base their politics on fashion and selfish appeals to ego rather than the health of the nation (and world) remain in Hillary Clinton’s camp, there is concern by her campaign that young women are abandoning her for Bernie Sanders.
Which prompted appeals by Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright for them to get their minds’ right.
Gloria said the girls were backing Bernie to chase boys. Madeleine was far more extreme invoking religion.
“There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other,” said Madeleine.
Frankly, considering Madeleine’s failure to back Sarah Palin in 2008 when she was the only gal on the ticket and considering her non-support of Carly Fiorina she has some serious repenting to do, but never mind that.
We’d just like to tell the women who continue to support Hillary solely because she is a woman that you are not alone. Bill and Bill continue to back her as do other prominent people.
Here is a little story about one of the guys that you are in bed with ladies.
We doubt though it will change your mind co-dependency being what it is.
For what it’s worth, if Huma Abedin’s father was still alive we are confident he’d back her as well. That’s something you should be very much afraid of, frankly.
Lonesome Dove was first written by Larry McMurtry in 1972 as a screeplay. It called for W.F. Call to be played by John Wayne, Agustus McCrae to be played by Jimmy Stewart, and Henry Fonda to play Jake Spoon. It didn’t work out. Maybe it was for the best.
Lonesome Dove John Wayne William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-8-16
Doritos Ad Angers Abortion Lovers — Doritos ran a funny Super Bowl ad which featured a father teasing his unborn child seen on an ultrasound with a Doritos chip.
Colt 45 Malt Liquor is not named after the legendary gun of the Wild West. It is named for Jerry Hill, a running back who wore the number 45 and played for — wait for it — the Baltimore Colts.
Martin Shkreli Democrat Donor — Martin Shkreli is the progressive hipster — he once spent $2 million for a special copy of a Wu-Tang Clan album — who was CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals AG until he was arrested by the FBI on Dec. 17 on charges of securities fraud.
His arrest, though, was not what made him “the most hated man in America” as he has become known. What won him that title was his raising the price of the anti-malarial drug Daraprim from $13.50 to $750 per tablet back in September.
Daraphrim is considered an “essential medicine” by the World Health Organization and is desperately needed especially in the poor parts of the globe.
On Feb. 4, Shkreli was brought before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives to answer questions regarding the price hike. He took the Fifth and smirked at legislators.
It turns out that he’s a big political donor. To what party as if you had to ask? It’s the Democrats. He dumped $33,400 in into the Democratic Senatorial Campaign last July and has endorsed Bernie Sanders for president.
