Pennsylvania's Constitution requires that a state budget be in place by June 30, but the General Assembly usually ignores this mandate. According to PoliticsPa, only four of the past dozen budgets have been adopted on time. There's no rush because legislators and state employees can still look forward to their paychecks. The spice still flows. But starting soon, the spigots will be turned off at school districts, local governments and with nonprofits.
Governor Josh Shapiro has trimmed his budget spending from $51.4 to $49.9 billion, but that was a week ago. At this point, the failure is irresponsible. How hard is it to have a budget that funds agencies investigating child abuse or school districts that educate our most valuable resource?
NorCo Council will tonight consider yet another nonbinding resolution calling on the state to do what it should have done by the end of June.
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The budget process is far too politicized now, the Republican Senate doesn’t really have strong ground to talk fiscal responsibility when the state has so much in surplus, but Dems are attempting to spend more than the state should in some areas, Shaprio also looks like he’s not capable of being a leader for the first time in his tenure. But that’s also kind of why the Republican Senate would do this. All that is nonsense and will hurt people from every corner of the state. But for the love of god can someone, anyone point out that our state has a Racehorse development fund that we waste almost 200 million on each year! So again the money is almost always there but political non sense and special interests will always get in the way. Go Birds!
Start voting incumbents out of office or require that legislators receive no pay if a budget is not passed.
Another toothless virtue signaling resolution from Northampton County. Will Warren introduce it with his standard long winded self-praising speech?
Same shit, different year. Nobody cares in either party.
Shapiro wants to be president. He’s not showing much leadership here. I’m disappointed.
I see SEPTA is mentioned. Why is the hell do we keep giving them money only to lose it? Why not audit them? I googled SEPTA losing money and the below came up. What company loses almost a billion dollars and gets more money consistently? This is a total joke.
Operating deficit without subsidy: In 2019, before the pandemic, SEPTA's expenses exceeded its fare revenue by nearly $893 million
Norco council quit wasting time and resources on another useless resolution. Do some real work. Do your jobs. You are no better than the state do-no-gooders.
Bunch of bums on both side of the aisle. The shame is that they get away with it just because they can.
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