Re: Gov. Wolf’s smart political play is to let this year’s budget fight drag on
In response to the conservative, pro non-Union teachers and non-Union public employees comments above. It’s not the union teachers or union employees that are causing the problems. It’s people like yourselves who are the problem.
Like it or not these problems require additional revenues to fix. Raising the sales tax from 6% to 7.5% is an additional 30 cents on a $20 purchase. How the hell is that breaking anyone? It should also be expanded to cover everything but clothing, most food and prescription medication.
When I worked with sales tax in the Dept of Revenue, we had a handbook hundreds of pages long covering what’s taxable and what is tax exempt.
Thousands of businesses are collecting sales on items that are exempt, and not charging tax on items that are taxable. There are probably 20+ lawyers on staff who do nothing but explain what’s taxable and what isn’t.
As long as you people continue to believe that a severance tax on natural gas drilling is going to drive drilling out of the state, our problems will continue. The fact that Shell Oil is definitely building a massive plant in Beaver County to use gas from the Marcellus and Utica shale layers to produce products guarantees a market for natural gas decades into the future. Wake up.
