Posted on 03/03/2015 1:07:25 AM PST by prisoner6
Gov. Tom Wolf is expected to call today for the Republican-controlled General Assembly to send him a budget that boosts state education funding and provides relief for school district property taxes while raising the rates of the sales and personal income taxes.
His plan for doing so includes a proposal to raise the personal income tax rate in July 2015 from 3.07 percent to 3.7 percent, while increasing the eligibility for a poverty exemption, according to a briefing document prepared by the administration. He will propose increasing the state sales tax in July 2016 from 6 to 6.6 percent while broadening what the tax applies to, but keeping food, clothing and prescription drugs exempt, according to the document. (Allegheny County has an additional 1 percent sales levy.)
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
He also has called for halving the state’s corporate net income tax rate, from 9.99 percent to 4.99 percent, by January 2018, while changing reporting requirements for multistate corporations.
The Guv wants to increase aid for education.
What he is doing is robbing Peter to pay Paul. His plan includes property tax cuts. (Yeah like that will be permanent!)
After all is said and done PA taxpayers will end up paying more taxes. Of course the RINO Boys in Harrisburg will go along with what The Wolf wants.
Pennsylvania voters = SUCKERS!
You voted for him.
I want a Unicorn .
NONE of the taxes will ever go away. Sure the property tax will be cut for awhile but as soon as a school district wants something they’ll go back up. And we’ll still be saddled with the new taxes.
In the meantime PA roads and bridges are in bad shape. Well, that’s SOP here but soon The Wolf will declare a crisis and POW, new taxes.
Living within a mile or two of the site of the Whiskey Rebellion the state of The State is so depressing.
Yay; more foreclosures and businesses closing.
A-Treat Soda, we hardly knew ye.
This kind of thing is why nobody wants to live in New York State anymore.
You mean the ones with jobs, don’t you? :0)
And yet some parts of New York want to secede and join Pennsylvania? Fools.
Those voters who hated Corbett as governor thought they could get their revenge by voting for Wolf.
Yep, those voters showed ‘em, huh!
When I move my business out of New Jersey I'll know to skip over Pennsylvania on my way west.
‘Rats = tax & spend.
Go south
Not so sure.
Howsabout a voter ID??
Get the popcorn ready, this is going to get interesting.
One of the out-of-work teachers in our office - a Republican - declared last summer that she lost her job because of Corbett and would never vote for him. In August, she was rehired - with a raise. She still blamed Corbett and said she would vote for Wolf. I don’t want to hear her whine when her taxes go up.
Sometimes I think the water here in Pa is laced with stupid-juice!
Wolfie is the the Great Democrat Hope in the northeast. While EVERY other state went Republican, the Commonwealth went INSANE and voted for PA’s version of Hope and Change.
In addition to his consumer tax requests he also is an EnviroDarling and wants to tax PA frackers. If he could, he would go all NewYork state and just outlaw fracking all together.
Eat your peas, Pennsylvania!
You voted for him.
Cowboy, no we didn't. The welfare scum that live in philly and pburgh plus the unions hacks that control the voting machines got this dirt bag elected.
I happen to like peas, but this scum bag is not my choice.
Multi-year investment my ass.
But therein lies the rub...Rats will get the proposed tax increases, but not the reduction in property taxes.
And we have to thank those Freepers who campaigned viciously against Corbett because he wasn’t pure enough for them...
Tamzee,
Ditto on that, what a bunch of losers. They should all be banned from FreeRepublic.
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