PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS Editorial: WE DON’T often agree with Tom Corbett, but the governor did the right thing in facing down the Legislature last week over the budget and pension reform.
The fact that a Republican governor is acting against a Republican-led Legislature has the political community twittering (and tweeting). Politics aside, the position Corbett took has real meaning.
The governor has been pressing the Legislature to send him bills to reform the pension systems for state employees and teachers. Both funds have large deficits that can be made up only by ever-increasing payments by local school districts and the state – unless something is done to change the benefit structure… (more)
