Ya, I know a few people having the same issue. It looks like it's no fun.

Pennsylvania's entire state budget for 2022 was $42.5b. Ohio's state budget for the same year was over $80b for a smaller population and a smaller economy.
 
Pennsylvania's budget per capita is the third lowest in the country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_budgets

 

People in this sub, and on Grandpa's Facebook feed, love to hoot and holler about how wasteful the state government here is but the numbers don't bear it out.

Please provide data to back up these assertions

Boy, do I have some good news for you about the climate here in twenty years.

Nah, just don’t like the cold.

So mad about taxes you're moving to the third world to avoid paying them lol. That is some Facebook Grandpa All-Star stuff.

You'd think after Oz the PA GOP wouldn't run someone who notably does not live in PA, but I guess not.

Fairly large? We have one of the largest, most bloated legislatures in the nation... If not THE largest. And they are insanely wasteful in their spending for what little they get done.

PA's bloated legislature

2nd largest legislature

Edit - My bad, thought you were referring to our state gov. My comment still stands though.

Their moral compass is so fucked up they can’t find their way to a parking lot.

Blame all the people who fake ADHD to get a script.

I really don't mind paying taxes, but the administration of taxes is inherently punitive. The fact that there is a multi-billion dollar tax prep industry is insane.

Is there a champagne Chevy Nova too?

Not sure how to answer this question? I'm just a baseline call center agent. it's all held from my paycheck, hope that makes sense. It's not pulled from an account?

I guess they thought they could get away with it this time.

Props to the teachers, students and others fighting back.

What percentage of your holdings are from accounts larger than 250K?

It’s tough, I think an appropriate level is are you protected from 90% of these clowns, but most businesses don’t have the $ or resources to be fully protected.

It’s always going to be a cat and mouse game.

My company got hacked a year or so ago before I came on board. And since then, there’s been a concentrated effort to batten down the hatches so to speak.

How can a private relatively small organization have the appropriate protections in place to compete with quasi-state funded hackers. I don’t know that we can ever get there and if 80% of companies do, they’ll find the other 20%.

>30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar; and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. >31 And the first-born said unto the younger: 'Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth. > 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.' > 33 And they made their father drink wine that night. And the first-born went in, and lay with her father; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

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I remember reading this not long ago. Make of it What you will. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/scientists-finally-figure-out-why-youre-more-likely-to-get-sick-in-cold-weather

I'd prefer my photos leaked than have my hospital pay these scumbags.

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The biggest danger a child faces in Y'All Qaedastan is being murdered at school by a christian with a gun, forced to work 12 hour shifts in a factory, or being forced to marry their 50 year old rapist when they get pregnant. Please tell me again in what reality republicans give a flying fuck about kids.

I mean I don't really care if he meant to sell or not, they're fuckin plants and we still ruin people's lives over it. Feels like we live in the 1800s sometimes