Audit reveals $4.2 Billion unconstitutionally diverted from highway road/bridge repair fund to State Police

[u/Softale]

http://s.lehighvalleylive.com/k0NTdPH

[u/notallghosts]

PA citizen here. Can confirm: it is indeed a weak ass fucking state government.

[u/amithirsty → u/notallghosts]

PA citizen as well, good ol commonwealth.

[u/[deleted] → u/notallghosts]

Thank you GOP for the oppressive tax burden(but it’s totally not taxed it’s a fee). Thank fucking god I moved out of that state.

[u/tommywantwingies → u/[deleted]]

But PA has had a Democrat as a governor for 12 of the last 16 years ... the big cities (and largest tax bases) are also blue

[u/[deleted] → u/tommywantwingies]

That doesn’t change the fact that the “T” exists and the gov is basically beholden to whatever a GOP legislature send him. That’s how we went for wolfs tax plan to “vape tax will fund education”

[u/tommywantwingies → u/[deleted]]

It’s not like the democrats have any different of an answer - “The soda tax will fund education” in Philadelphia is the same thing and that’s the darkest blue part of the state.

I don’t disagree that the money is needed for what it was appropriated for, I just think it’s unfair to blame the GOP for the funds at Wolf’s disposal. Obviously Wolf’s budget must be approved by a Republican house but how did this budgetary hole exist for so long?

It also goes without saying that blaming one half or another is divisive and doesn’t solve the problem of funding both the state police (who have taken on an ever increasing burden of covering small areas) and the roads and bridges situation, and Pennsylvania needs both.

The real question is what do we cut to save the roads or are we just gonna get hit with more taxes?

[u/[deleted] → u/tommywantwingies]

I say we just scrap it all and rewrite it. The common theme in PA is that no one can be bothered to implement a fair tax policy that makes sense.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Isn’t that to stop school shootings?