Posted on 05/24/2019 4:47:01 PM PDT by lightman
See post #7.
Babysitting casinos and bailing out Boroughs too cheap to pay for their own Police.
In California much of the money from gas taxes goes to pay gov’t pensions and not fix roads. They spend billions on a train to nowhere and for what? They know know one will use it to justify the building of it. It is money laundering, transferring money around to the democrat party and those who can help current and future politicians.
The only thing that makes PA seem not too crooked, is that we border NJ...
I used to hate traveling through PA. Ya, you could gain some time and distance but God forbid you had an accident on those highways.
Back in the day before cell phones, nobody bothered to monitor the emergency channel. We came across a rollover accident and kept calling for help, no answer. Finally, we flagged down a trucker who stopped at the nearest phone and called fot help. It took over 2 hours for help to finally arrive. One of the occupants had a head injury, and their dog died.
Roads were always lousy and was always nice to cross the line into Ohio where the roads were excellent. Better watch your speed, though!
Don’t know how things are there today, but apparently not much has changed in the last 50 years.
1000% True!
I’ve been asking since I was 6 years old: WHERE/WHO is pocketing that 1/10 of a cent from Us paying the rounded up price ? As far as I know the United States has never had a 1/10 Penny coin or Bill...
1/10th Cent multiplied by the daily average of about 391.40 million gallons Gallons of Fuel sold every day.
A LOT OF WAMPUM.
They can do anything on PAPER, is issue money from that way of “accounting”.
The Democrats like to raise taxes on specific things by ‘selling’ them as being dedicated to a specific public need — then the state governor (legally required to balance his state budget) simply shifts the funds around. They’ve been playing this game for 25 years and the fund shifting is sort of baked into the budgetary cake.
The PA State Police are apparently underfunded, but no governor will call for a general income tax increase, preferring to raise gas taxes and car registration fees. It’s political cowardice because it prevents a debate about cutting state government.
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