Wolf paints dismal picture fiscal picture; severance tax not enough

SCRANTON TIMES-TRIBUNE: … [Governor elect Tom] Wolf said “one-time fixes” were being used to make ends meet for a long enough time that, “we basically don’t have cash left.”…

Mr. Wolf has campaigned for a severance tax on natural gas drillers that he said would raise hundreds of millions of dollars that he said could be used for things like education.

“I still want to do that,” he said. “But it’s not a magic potion to fix what we have here.” … (more)