Posted on 10/24/2014 6:59:57 AM PDT by Phillyred
If elected governor, Tom Wolf plans to end the asset test, a measure that ties federal food stamp benefits to people's bank accounts and car ownership.
The Democrat would also work to reestablish General Assistance (GA), which used to pay $205 a month to people who were both poor and disabled.
Both moves would reverse initiatives by Gov. Corbett, who saw the asset test as a way to cut down on fraud and waste, and GA as an unnecessary institution from the 1930s whose elimination has saved the state $150 million a year. The Republican governor added the asset test and discarded GA in 2012.
The two programs have figured prominently in the lives of poor people. But they traditionally do not figure prominently in gubernatorial campaigns. While advocates for the poor applaud Wolf's intent, political experts say his views on asset tests and GA won't change voters' minds: Those who agree with Wolf's views on the programs are already in his corner.
Wolf has not said a great deal in public about the asset test. But in a July statement to ACT-UP Philadelphia, a nonpartisan group committed to ending AIDS, Wolf called the asset test "another example of how [Corbett] has embraced policies intended to hurt our most vulnerable residents."
In response, Billy Pitman, a spokesman for Corbett's campaign, said in an e-mail: "Gov. Corbett believes our limited public welfare dollars should be targeted at our most vulnerable."
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Vote for meee. I’ll give the most free stuff.
Can’t stand him either, but Wolf is going to kill this state.
Welfare in every pot!
Appealing to the gibsmedat crowd
That’s it! Got to keep the slaves on the plantation
Yeah, up and out to vote once every 4 years, or 2 is probable when free $ is tied to it.
Can we apply Michelle Owe-bama’s school lunch policies to the food stamp program?
asset test=if you have a big screen tv, a cell phone or a car, no aid. those are luxuries. we did without them for decades.
Philly also had 100% votes for obola.
The poll was done by a GOP outfit and was designed to make it look good for Corbett.
I don’t buy it...
Corbett raised gas taxes, agreed to Medicaid expansion under Obamacare, gave up the court fight when a federal judge legalized same sex marriage and he won’t even enforce abortion clinic inspection laws.
What is there to vote for?
I agree with you on all points about Corbett.
He has been a major disappointment.
But Wolf was Fast Eddie Rendell’s tax hiking czar.
And there won’t be a tax he does not try to hike
if he takes office.
Aimed at people who vote for a living.
Democrat giving away working peoples money who knew.
The credit rating is down and the whispers about overspending and band aiding the budget for this year are true.
As long as Pileggi leads the GOP in the Senate no spending cuts are in order, protecting unions-pensions is...
Corbett will have to raise taxes again to make ends meet is he is re-elected.
I get off work @ 7:30 am and am going straight to the polls.
So you are still here campaigning against Corbett... a Republican governor that reduced welfare programs. It is either him or Wolf, who states he will restore them. And yet you still preach there is no difference between them....
2014 ALEC-LAFFER State Economic Competitiveness Index
http://alec.org/docs/RSPS_7th_Edition.pdf
PA is page 107
Pennsylvania is now ranked 33 out of all the states with Utah ranked 1 and New York ranked at 50
2010 PA ranked 43 under Rendell
2011 PA ranked 41 under Corbett’s first year
2012 PA ranked 40
2013 PA ranked 34
2014 PA ranked 33
Corbett has brought PA up 10 places in state rankings from 43 to 33 in his few short years as governor with regard to economic growth and tax burden
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