WILKES-BARRE TIMES-LEADER Editorial: They may seem separate and unrelated, but there is a unifying force – and a cautionary lesson – in the fate of the state’s voter ID law and the Centax/Don Wilkinson tax collection debacle.
Both are failures of reasonable ideas that collapsed because Harrisburg hatched them in half-baked haste…
The Harrisburg recipe has become an endless parade of the same old fare: unfunded mandates with unintended, yet strangely predictable, results. Municipal leaders and school board members may not know exactly how they will be impacted when the state legislature acts, but they know it will hurt, and they know the nabobs who caused the problem will be too busy grinding more unsavory sausage to help… (more)
