Posted on 02/13/2021 3:00:43 PM PST by upchuck
Governor Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania confuses me. He does not appear outwardly to be an idiot. He seems to be able to dress himself. He is well educated. Unlike Joe Biden he does not have to hustle off camera to avoid answering any questions more consequential than what flavor of ice cream he is eating.
And, yet, I can only conclude he is, in fact, an idiot.
Many, many months ago the good Governor shut down the state of Pennsylvania with a series of ill-considered and poorly executed executive orders justified vaguely by the existence of a so-called pandemic. Strangely enough, when businesses were shuttered and people laid off, tax revenue, which is based on income, plummeted. The State of Pennsylvania is now drowning in red ink.
And, so Wolf has decided that in order to make up for the shortfall caused by the fact this his constituents don’t make any money – he will make them pay higher taxes – on the income they don’t have any more. The Governor is proposing an increase in the personal income tax rate from 3.07% to 4.49%, starting July 1. That would be the first increase since 2003.
If you are confused you should be. You might as well have stepped through the Looking Glass.
Pennsylvania, like most states, is required to balance its budget. It cannot, like the federal government, just keep charging things to some magic credit card in the sky. At present, best estimates are that Pennsylvania is about $4.5 billion dollars short of what it needs just to continue to operate at current levels.
That would seem bad enough. Undeterred, though, Wolf is determined that he will make an already catastrophic situation worse. He is not just proposing to raise taxes. He wants to increase spending. That includes a 20% increase in aid to public schools and all sorts of things he wants to do to provide aid to the poor; it never having occurred to him apparently that there might not be so many people in need of public services, if the economy was open, folks had jobs and businesses were not imploding all around us.
In the name of protecting us from a virus, which may or may not pose anything like the public health threat claimed, Wolf has destroyed Pennsylvania’s economy.
And yes, Tom Wolf is an idiot. A rat idiot.
We can’t expect the government to lose money.
No, he is smart enough too know that The Dominion wants him to do his part to destroy all decent people.
He knows, tht voters do not matter. Only obedience to The Dominion.
He’s taking lessons from the state of Louisiana. That’s how they do it.
The headline answers its own question.
I live in PA and yes, he is a idiot. Tax and spend liberal.
Is Tom Wolf an idiot? Is that a trick question??? Is the pope communist?
I have Democrat ex-friends like this.
They’ve got theirs.
That’s all that matters to them.
They could care less if the rest of the population starves, but they’d be willing to create another bureaucracy to look into the matter.
Wait until he bans fracking and coal mining!
An idiot is a person with low mental abilities, and almost no social skills. Such a person is for the most part dysfunctional in today’s society.
This man is not an idiot. He somehow climbed or clawed his way up to the political station of the executive, governor of Pennsylvania. He has manipulated the situation and the people around him, to stay in power.
As long as the he can obfuscate the truth, and commit obvious malfeasance without accounting, he may stay in power.
Wolf is not an idiot, he is a criminal and an enemy of the Constitution, and of the rule of law. Recall time. Big time~!
“Is Tom Wolf An Idiot?”
He’s a democrat isn’t he?
Several years ago a friend of mine, also an Army retiree, moved to PA because it didn’t tax military retirement. I wonder if Wolf’s bill will begin taxing it?
Wolfe opened his mouth and removed all doubt.
“Is Tom Wolf An Idiot? “
That’s like asking if the sky is blue. Add that he always rolls out that fugly freak he calls a Health Secretary to take “it” seriously when it’s a tranny puke..
Just evil.
People need to learn the difference.
increase in the personal income tax rate from 3.07% to 4.49%,
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A tiny 46% increase.
DemonRats: Bleed “we the people” DRY.
TX & FL are going to be out of room shortly.
We’ll see if the idiot republicans actually pass his budget. I don’t think they are that stupid. close but not quite.
This is just a trial balloon for what Biden wants to do to the entire U.S.
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