House Rejects Wolf Tax Plan

House Rejects Wolf Tax Plan
Shame on you Governor Wolf for your irresponsibility and intransigence.

The Pennsylvania House this afternoon, Oct. 7, voted down Gov. Wolf proposed tax hike, 127-73.

No Republican supported the bill and nine Democrats — Frank Burns (72nd), Jaret Gibbons (10th),  Ted Harhai (58th)  (Nick Kotik (45th), Tim Mahoney (51st), Robert Matzie (16th), Joseph Patrarca (55th), Chris Sainato (9th),  and Pam Snyder (50th) — also voted nay.

Harhai was not recorded as a nay on the first release of the roll call.

Gov. Wolf sought to raise the state income tax 16 percent.

He also sought to impose a natural gas drilling tax of  3.5 percent, plus 4.7 cents per thousand cubic feet. This would be on top of the existing  impact fee which brings in about $220 million per year in revenue.

The state legislature passed 30.179 billion budget on June 30 that was a 3.6 percent increase over the previous year and would have increased education spending by $100 million.

Wolf vetoed it.

He also rejected a recent proposal to increase education spending by $400 million if he agrees to liquor privatization and pension reform.

In the meantime, due to the Governor’s ego and intransigence, schools and social services are not getting necessary funds.

Shame on you Gov. Wolf.

House Rejects Wolf Tax Plan

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-7-15

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-7-15

The United States tried to buy Greenland for $100 million in 1946. The Danes wouldn’t sell.

Tax Poor Help Rich

Tax Poor Help Rich
Gov Wolf want to tax the poor to help the rich.

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

 

 

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-8-15

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-8-15

Marinades don’t tenderize meat unless they are yogurt based.

Larry Denver Valley Forge Pats Speaker

Larry Denver Valley Forge Pats SpeakerLarry Denver of Faith & Freedom Coalition of Pennsylvania will speak, 6:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 9 before the Valley Forge Patriots at P J Ryan’s Pub, 233 Bridge St., Phoenixville 19460.

His topic will be America is at a “tipping point”.

Larry Denver Valley Forge Pats Speaker

 

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-5-15

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-5-15

Shower curtains move towards the water because the spray creates a miniature hurricane. David Schmidt  of the University of Massachusetts Amherst determined this in 2001 on his home computer.

Wolf Tax Vote Oct. 7

Wolf Tax Vote Oct. 7Leo Knepper of Citizens Alliance of Pennsylvania reports that the Pennsylvania House will vote on Governor Wolf’s tax proposal, Oct. 7. Taxpayers in Pennsylvania cannot afford the $5 billion in tax increases that the Governor is demanding over the next two years. Every member of the House should vote “NO” on the Governor’s tax proposal, he says and he is right.

Knepper says that CAP will be closely monitoring the amendment process.

“While some lawmakers might be tempted to vote in favor of the extraction tax, bank share fee, and/or tax increase on tobacco products, CAP will also score attempts to amend the legislation toward those ends negatively,” he said. “In other words, the Governor’s proposal should be voted on in its entirety.

Knepper says that the Governor and his allies have painted this as a vote to make the natural gas industry pay “its fair share”, but the reality is that 75 percent of the new taxes will be collected via the personal income tax and changes to the sales tax.

He asks that you contact your Representative, Senator, and Governor Wolf to let them know that you oppose this latest scheme to raise your taxes and this can be done via this link.

Wolf Tax Vote Oct. 7

Best Buys Nice Shopping Experience

Best Buys Nice Shopping ExperienceThe big box stores have a bad rep but we’d like to praise the Best Buys on Baltimore Pike in Springfield, Pa.

Springfield Township, like most, won’t accept electronics in the trash stream.  Our old TV died and we needed a new one. The township charges $50 to dispose of unwanted televisions. Best Buys, however, has allowed the township to refer it to those who need to dispose of old hardware.

And so we went. There was no hassle, they just slapped a tag on it and had us put it in a shopping cart. We were free to go. We didn’t have to buy anything.

Of course, we did even though we had not planned on getting our replacement there.

Will Walmart and the other brick and mortar appliance dealers do the same? If yes, they ought let let the municipal governments know about it and ask them to promote it.

It is a service the web retailers will find it tough to match.

Best Buys Nice Shopping Experience

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-2-15

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-2-15 Robert Sherwood, the playwright, failed to pass freshman English at Harvard. His professor is probably still blushing. Sherwood, after going out into the real world, won three Pulitzer Prizes for drama in six years. Robert Sherwood, the playwright, failed to pass freshman English at Harvard. His professor is probably still blushing. Sherwood, after going out into the real world, won three Pulitzer Prizes for drama in six years.

Robert Sherwood, the playwright, failed to pass freshman English at Harvard. His professor is probably still blushing. Sherwood, after going out into the real world, won three Pulitzer Prizes for drama in six years.

Abortion School Shooting Connection

Chris Harper-Mercer
Chris Harper-Mercer

There have been 24 U.S. school shootings by our count of the list at Wikipedia involving five or more injuries or deaths since Anthony F. Barbaro shot passersby at random from a window at Olean (N.Y.) High School in 1974 killing three and wounding 11.

There had been school massacres before, notably the University of Texas shootings by Charles Whitman in 1966 and the bizarre Bath School disaster in 1927 in which a demonic school official spent months planting bombs in the building to maximize tragedy, but otherwise the violence was targeted and personal.

That, of course, has  changed.

Yesterday (Oct. 1), an anti-Christian named Chris Harper-Mercer murdered nine — or 11 depending on the source — students at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., and wounded several others. Before the killing Harper-Mercer asked his victims their religion. Those who said “Christian” he shot in the head. Those who said otherwise he shot in the leg.

So what has caused this change in society? Was it access to guns? Access to guns were arguably easier before 1974 especially for youths. Barbaro was on his school’s rifle team.

So no, it is not access to guns.

What has changed, though, is our culture.

Our respect for life has disappeared.

We tell young men that protecting the innocent is no longer something they should aspire to do.

We have powerful people in government, media and academia shrug their shoulder at revelations of the weak and helpless being harvested for body parts. It’s worse than that actually. The actively defend the organization that does such monstrous things, and insist it be rewarded with public money.

We have state officials protecting mass murder if it is politically fashionable.

It isn’t a coincidence that the school shooting epidemic didn’t start until after our Supreme Court declared abortion to be a “right”.

We start holding once again that the existence of God is an axiom, and that we have individual rights granted by our Creator, and that the rest of us have an obligation to protect the rights of others, especially those that can’t defend themselves, the epidemic will end.

If we continue the path we are now on, things are going to get a lot worse.

Abortion School Shooting Connection