PA budget

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Everybody else got laid off, let the state workers go.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Originally Posted by Flint

Why is this a statement with no explanation? Why "should" a person who has worked hard and made smart decisions in order to provide for their family be punished for their hard work and sacrifices?

Let's use the family analogy that repubicans are so fond of these days. Your family has four members in it. Do you each pay the same amount for your food, clothing, utilities, etc.? No. You pay much more than your children do. Why? because you make much more than they do. Are you being punished for your hard work?

Wealth people "should" pay more taxes because they've benefitted from government services, which have allowed them to attain wealth, because a strong middle class will make a strong America, and because everybody needs to feel some pain, not just those whose jobs are being eliminated and those whose services are being cut.

Originally Posted by Flint

If you set up the system: "the harder you work, the less you can keep" what would happen?

You'd have a system that gives incentive to reinvest capital. Workers would be paid more, businesses would become more efficient, prices would be kept lower, products and services would be better. Think the 1950s.