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[PA]Gov. Tom Wolf to propose tax increase to benefit public schools, give tax breaks to some families
Pennlive ^ | 2 February A.D. 2021 | Jan Murphy

Posted on 02/02/2021 11:23:22 AM PST by lightman

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To: Varda

I’m sure NJ teachers are paid more - for 180 part-time days of work.


21 posted on 02/02/2021 12:16:59 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: lightman
The budget proposal seeks to address the inequities created by the state’s flat personal income tax rate by expanding the tax forgiveness credit, according to an administration official. Filers with incomes at or below these thresholds – $15,000 for single filers; $30,000 for married filers; and $10,000 allowance for each dependent – will receive total 100 personal income tax forgiveness. The percentage of tax forgiveness declines by 1 percentage point for each $500 above the threshold for 100 percent forgiveness.

So families with two children making less than $84,000 will receive a tax cut while a family of four making $50,000 will have their taxes eliminated.

If the writer graduated from a Pennsylvania public school, that doesn't say too much about about Pennsylvania public schools.

22 posted on 02/02/2021 12:19:53 PM PST by Sooth2222 (“Taxation without representation is tyranny.” -James Otis (1761))
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To: lightman

Gots to give money to them folks in big cities who ALWAYS vote dem don’t ya know?


23 posted on 02/02/2021 12:25:37 PM PST by Joe Boucher (Biden family crime syndicate and Camel toe the whore. Leaders of the free world?)
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To: cuban leaf

“ But everybody is being schooled from home.”

Yes, but even so, teachers got a “snow day” here in northern Virginia. Wrap your head around that one.


24 posted on 02/02/2021 12:30:59 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: lightman

We’re already giving away over a trillion a year in Welfare
and other freebies.

Now this knuckle-dragger wants to raise taxes by HOW MUCH?

Here: Get an eye full of this.

https://beverlypress.com/2020/11/lausd-serves-75m-meals-in-covid-19-relief-effort/


25 posted on 02/02/2021 12:37:28 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: lightman

Gosh, what a surprise! Not.


26 posted on 02/02/2021 12:56:51 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: lightman

“An increase of that size in the personal income tax would raise more than $3 billion annually.”

Someone please remind me the last time a prediction about how much a new tax would “raise” to the government was actually correct?


27 posted on 02/02/2021 12:59:28 PM PST by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: americas.best.days...

“Penna is a blue state now. They won’t mind paying extra taxes. It’s for the children.”

Not really. We’re “blue” only if you count the fraudulent votes and dead people. Which, of course, politicians do.


28 posted on 02/02/2021 1:00:47 PM PST by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: rrrod

“All public school teachers are grossly overpaid.”
________________________________________________
Not all, but definitely some are. For example a long term gym teacher making near 100K-absolutely disgusting pay.

Let me show you the sh!t my wife has to deal with,or better yet, maybe you should spend some time in her shoes. For what she makes, I bet you’d sing a different tune.
THERE IS NO WAY I WOULD TAKE HER JOB FOR HER PAY!!!
Never, never,never, no way in H3ll!

Administration, parents, lawyers, bratty kids, and state politics render MOST teachers hamstrung.
They’re supposed to make silk purses outta sows ears, with 2 hands tied behind their backs.


29 posted on 02/02/2021 1:11:40 PM PST by bantam
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The GOP needs to win the governor’s race in 2022, or we won’t win in 2024.


30 posted on 02/02/2021 1:16:43 PM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: lightman
The Democratic governor will need approval from the Republican-controlled General Assembly to approve his spending plan and his proposals to raise the state income tax and increase the minimum wage.

They have to write that for the stupid that think higher taxes are a good thing.

Government should be cut. MASSIVELY. Every school teacher deserves a 30% pay cut. They are a bunch of leftists. So screw them. Business taxes should be completely eliminated. The temporary sales abolished. (Yeah, it was supposed to be temporary.) Personal income taxes should be lowered to 1%. I'm being generous, because I really don't think anyone working in Harrisburg is worth a dime.

31 posted on 02/02/2021 1:17:27 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Varda
A family with 2 children is a family of four. What does this mean?

Obviously the author is a product of Pennsylvania's public schools.

32 posted on 02/02/2021 1:19:01 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: TakebackGOP

GOP LOL, LOL, LOL give me a damn break GOP is useless a GOP winning is Dem lite!! WAKE UP!!


33 posted on 02/02/2021 1:21:02 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: nascarnation; cuban leaf; lightman

This is nothing more than a payoff to the teacher’s unions for their unwavering support. It has nothing to do with actually improving education. The only thing that will do that would be to get government out of education at all levels.


34 posted on 02/02/2021 1:21:47 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (‘You can drive out Nature with a pitchfork, but she keeps on coming back.’ – Horace)
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To: Tallguy
Probably this proposal is DOA in the state legislature... Probably.

Wanna bet? I guarantee that Republicans will cave and there will be higher taxes. Maybe not all of what the Wolf wants, but definitely some. Republicans do not know how to fight. They do not know how to win. They are pussies. Oh, and by the way, when is the Republican control legislature going to fix election fraud in PA? Screw them. I am never voting for a Republican again - not that it matters, because my vote doesn't count.

35 posted on 02/02/2021 1:23:46 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: 98charlie

Bull crap. Your wife belongs to a leftist school teacher’s union that fights against everything I stand for. The quality of education has not increased one iota, but school taxes constantly increase. If a teacher belongs to a union then they need to be lumped into the same pile of excrement as all the teachers.


36 posted on 02/02/2021 1:26:51 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: lightman

PA’s constitution does not permit a graduated tax. Using a tax forgiveness credit to vary tax rates smells like a graduated tax. It should not hold up in court except that the PA courts are corrupt. I don’t think the legislators would pass this increase. There is not much love between the republican legislator and the governor.


37 posted on 02/02/2021 1:38:56 PM PST by PhillyPhreeper
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To: rrrod

Pensions and health bennies are a far bigger problem than salaries.


38 posted on 02/02/2021 1:40:00 PM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: ConservativeInPA

As a Border Patrol Agent I also belong to a leftist union that supports things I stand against and work to prevent. My wife and I are both in unions that we because of the lawyers that they provide in case we are sued or in my case prosecuted.

Not everyone in a union likes it, but we don’t have much choice. Getting a lawyer to defend ourselves in court would more than likely bankrupt us.


39 posted on 02/02/2021 2:34:39 PM PST by 98charlie
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To: lightman

Raising taxes.

No, no, lemme guess. He’s a demonrat.


40 posted on 02/02/2021 2:39:55 PM PST by bgill ("Salute the Marines")
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