In an Editorial Opinion Dec. 5th, 2016 Gov. Wolf wrote “Pennsylvanians can count on him to fight for them….”. His methods are to eliminate the Free Market so: “No, Governor, stop stacking the deck and hurting Pennsylvanians then promising to help us after you finish hurting us. We don’t need anyone who is fighting that way”
Wolf Want’s to “make schools better” by giving government schools piles of more money. PA teachers have over-burdened PA taxpayers and Wolf want’s to give them more money to make sure all teachers are getting their fair share. If they received their fair share they wouldn’t be paid more than physicists, engineers and scientists. And Wolf will pick your pockets as much as he can. It’s time to stop the man.

Governor Wolf tried and thankfully failed to raise the severance tax on the national gas industry. Such a move would have a chilling effect on the state’s fastest-growing sector. Worse, it would drive jobs and workers out of Pennsylvania and into states that offer energy-boom upside without the high-tax downside. He has no alternative to increasing taxes. He’s socially nearesighted. Can’t see the damage of taxes, only the money coming in, money separated from it’s owner, the person who earned it byu thge threat of force. That’s how thugs operate and that’s how Wolf wants to operate. He was stopped by the PA legislature by a vote of 0-193 vote – not a single state lawmaker wanted to get behind this dud of a plan. Good. More than good, …great!

At the heart of Wolf’s plan was a 20 percent hike in personal income taxes. That, combined with the proposed sales-tax increase, represents the largest tax increase in Pennsylvania state history. Jumps in the income tax rate affect nearly every working Pennsylvanian. The tax kicks in when an individual makes just $8,700 annually, or when a family makes more than $36,400. Workers across all sectors – from firefighters to teachers to Millennials trying to start a career in Pennsylvania – would be hurt by this ill-conceived hike. On average, the governor’s proposed tax increase would smack middle-class families of four with an additional $1,400 in state income tax owed.

Wolf is worse than that. he wants a full suite of job-killing policies. Wolf also wants an increase in the minimum wage, even though studies reveal that mandated wage boosts often have a negative impact on job creation especially on entry level jobs and jobs at the lower end of the experience scale, the people who need every cent of what they earn. Wolf want’s to take away more of their money. This is especially true of small businesses which cannot afford to increase all salaries and must make hard decisions about layoffs. For the 763,000 small-business owners in Pennsylvania, Wolf’s minimum wage hike and his increase in the income tax represent a real threat to their success and survival.

He lies by omission too. He won’t tell you, for example, that many PA teachers are paid an average $70 an hour and they aren’t any better at their jobs than other lower paid teachers. In addition they have created a pension crisis where they get a fantastic pension payment after working as little as 20 years. Some teachers get more in their pension than they did in their pay envelopes. Wolf knows that but he was elected with a load of help by the teachers who are over 90% registered Democrat. Wolf’s reforms will increase their pay even more to the detriment of PA taxpayers without helping or changing the results of the schools.

Here’s the 2 question test to be a teacher. Can you talk? Can you read? If they nod their heads twice they’re in. 5 hour days, three months vacation, 100% paid pensions and retire at age 50. What is wrong with Wolf that he want’s to increase those costs to the taxpayers. It’s immoral. If he want’s to help education tell the teachers they must be good enough to lecture to a room with far more students that they have now. Help education by getting rid of incapable teachers and replacing them with capable, competent people and paying them a free market rate. That’s a win-win for taxpayers and students.

He wrote: when I ran my private business in York–providing middle class wages and sharing profits with my employees while also competing and winning against companies from China. He made money selling cabinets, not by increasing tzxes. So go ahead governor, give people something for their money instaed af taking it from them them giving them double-talk about hoe you took their money and helped them.

Wolf should cut the PA bureaucracy, reduce taxes and make PA complete again. If he can do that he has my vote but for now he’s too communalistic for my taste.

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