Suckers.
Couldn't happen to a better bunch of tax-loving voters. The state would make a fortune on a Stupidity Tax for PA.
After rejecting Lynn Swann and bouncing Santorum, this is fitting justice for a state that is trying every day to become just like New Jersey. The pols in PA like to think of ways to tax anything that stays still for more than a minute. Here are a few suggestions that they havent done yet: Lawn mower licenses, golf cart registration and licences, horse registration, breathing. I moved out of this declining blue state years ago and feel bad for many friends I left behind to suffer. Almost what people experience who move out of S. Africa.
Did you happen to catch Rangel on Hannity this afternoon? Sean asked him to tule out tax increases and Charlie double talked. Finally he said he was FOR tax cuts for the middle class. He defined that as those earning 70k-200k.
He went on to - relunctantly - agree that the top 5% of wage earners shoulder around 65% of the tax burden.
That left me to wonder...if he isn't going to raise taxes on "the rich" and lower taxes for the "middle class"...just who is he going to tax? Sadly Sean didn't follow up.
ROTFLMAO!
prisoner6
I hope these people aren't looking for sympathy.
"All I can say about the voters of Penn. ~ Suckers"
Didn't you mean to say the 'principled conservatives' of Penn?
Yeah, funny how to Fast Eddie's commission waited until after the elction to drop this big tax/fee increase bomb on Pennsylvania.
Fortunately, the Republicans here in the Commwealth narrowly control both the Senate and General Assembly, and I doubt if this highway robbery plan will go anywhere, especially since the politicians in power know that Pennsylvanians carefully watch how they vote on any and all tax matters.
And yes, I agree that the Pennsylvanians who re-elected Rendell (from the Philadelphia-Scranton-Pittsburg "iron triangle") are real suckers, while us the rest of us who voted for Swann and Santorum are still crying out in the wilderness.
"the proposed realty-transfer tax increase would add about $5 a month ta 30-year, $150,000 mortgage for homeowners, Biehler said."
Let's see 30 years x 12 months = 360 months x $5/month = $1,800 in new taxes on a $150,000 mortgage.
When Santorum got bounced, and Eddie G(ambino) Rendell got re-elected by what, a 75-25 margin? I decided to start making my exit from the Democratic Republic of Pennsylvania.
I warned everybody I knew that right after the election, they would be breaking out the rakes and shovels and wheelbarrows and carting away the money. His second term is going to make the Milty Shapp regime look like Boy Scouts.
Quoth G. Gordon Liddy - "Ye Suckerzzzzz!"
AMAZING!!!
Here we are a week out from an election and new taxes are suggested from our RE-ELECTED DEMOCRAT governor!! Surprise! Surprise!
What's especially amazing about this is our local Daily Rag endorsed him in glowing terms and today they have an editorial about these new taxes. They aren't too thrilled. I guess I can now call the editor a disgruntled democrat.
(OOHHH that feels so good!)
I live in Pa., and we are getting what the stupid voters voted for. Tax, Tax and more tax. Just think of what the dumb-o-crats are going to do on the national level.
... and the proposed realty-transfer tax increase would add about $5 a month ta 30-year, $150,000 mortgage for homeowners, Biehler said....
They could have come out and said it was a tax of $1800, but instead they spread it out across 30 years to come up with the $5/mo figure.
Also...
Raise $760 million for mass transit, with 75 percent from the state and 25 percent from counties and municipalities.
How about either raise the prices for mass transit so that it pays for itself, or just eliminate it altogether?
The following is code for converting previously "free" roads to tolls and letting a private company run it. If you're unlucky, they could be thinking of a huge boondoggle for the profit of foreign companies like our Gov. Goodhair in Texas is trying to do with the TTC.
Ease mass-transit tax burden by exploring public-private partnerships and finance capital projects through borrowing.
Lord knows, the roads in Pennsylvania need help. Truckers agree they are the worst in the country. I'd be all for the increases if I had any reason at all to believe that the money would actually go where it is needed.