I hope he runs more ads about how he peaked in high school

PA overall tax rank is the 4th highest in the nation.

Tack on $22,770,000 for 253 General Assembly members' salaries and we've got $73.8m more or less, per year. Still less than two tenths of a percent of the state's entire budget.
 
What is an acceptable cost to run a legislature in your opinion? What is an acceptable salary for legislators if $90K is just excessive, in your opinion?
 
If you've got better numbers for the total cost to operate the general assembly than I've got here, you're welcome to show us. Because all I can see here is Grandpa yelling the clouds over a tiny fraction of the state budget.

Firearms overtook auto accidents as the leading cause of death in children

Between 1982 and February 2023, 73 out of the 140 mass shootings in the United States 73 were carried out by white shooters. By comparison, the perpetrator was African American in 25 mass shootings, and Latino in 11. When calculated as percentages, this amounts to 52 percent, 17 percent, and eight percent respectively.

Arkansas is leading the charge against laws that protect kids — despite revelations of dangerous child labor nationwide.

Marital exemptions to statutory rape laws provide legal loopholes for sexual acts with children, otherwise considered crimes

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No no. Everyone gets to choose as long as they choose the right thing. That's is the Maga way. Just like freedom of religion, as long as it's a Protestant Chistian variety.

I haven't tried it yet, but I've read good things about using a hospital pharmacy.

Dude, did you read any of the articles? That $51 million isn't the total cost of the legislature, that $51 million is just what our legislature is spending on expenses. Dinners, car rentals, lodgings and other perks that they refuse to disclose.

No more hedge fund guys. They have way too much power in this country.

They really do clickbait pretty hardcore, but then who doesn't these days?

... it's 3.07%

calm down

I can't imagine why anybody would retire in PA. The very first requirement I'm going to have of anyplace I retire to is that it can never snow.

This state's awful and being old here is just asking to slip and break a hip.

A big reason there isn’t vyvanse issues is because it’s still under patent and only brand name so it’s much more expensive so people avoid it if they can.

But I think the patent expires this year

Books are added/removed from library lists all the time. You obviously can't carry every single book in existence. Someone is always making decisions on what to put on the shelves. Every person making a big deal about this, regardless of their stance, is just looking for cheap political points.
Oh look, OP conveniently included a link to donate to a Democrat PAC. What a surprise.

Fabricated outrage is so financially lucrative for politicians.

I wouldn't care as much if every fricken weather agency didn't clickbait so hard.

"NOR'EASTERN DUE TO SLAM THE NORTHEAST, CLICK HERE/STAY TUNED TO SEE HOW MUCH SNOW TO EXPECT" -- literally every news and weather broadcast for the past 72 hours. I hate them all.,

Party that screams “parental choice” won’t let others make those choices.

You’ve always had the ability to restrict what material your child has access to, the problem is, it requires you to actually be involved and do the work.

Uruguay absolutely is.

To clarify, you think that ~$51m a year is an exorbitant amount to operate a legislature?
 
That is less than 1/10th of the city of Pittsburgh School District's yearly budget. It is 1/10 of 1% of the state's budget.
 
It isn't 1965 and bread doesn't cost a nickel a loaf anymore, grandpa.

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Greece being third world lol. My friend have you ever heard of any of the islands?

If criticizing our legislature for wasteful, unnecessary spending for self-enrichment is "perfect Facebook, grandpa" post, then so be it.

I'm pretty sure I linked to numbers in my previous post, but here's some more reading:

PA legislature crooked spending

you are right. deindustrialization in the late 20th century fucked over so many communities in this country. the only way to truly fix the issue is a coordinated approach between federal & state govts (local govts too if they can be bothered, but thats always a crap shoot).

The key is if you put all your money in in PA to move to a state where they don't tax it at all (no income tax) or IL or... Alabama? Where they don't tax it coming out of the retirement acct.

I guess it would take Congress to pass a law to harmonize the system if Congress itself constitutionally.can. I'm not sure they can because states can levy their own taxes without the federal government. Maybe the federal government could arm twist like they did with the drinking and smoking age.

I was there in the 90's too.

I remember when they put the traffic light in at the intersection where the Rite Aid is. They actually asked local businesses to help pay for its installation.