The choice is clear
I urge you to know the facts. Don’t let Tom Wolf pull the wool over your eyes. Eighty percent of the people I have spoken to do not know the facts, they have been hearing the lies over and over and those lies become the truth.
Tom Corbett increased funding for basic education by $1.5 billion since 2011 — a historic level. Ed Rendell used federal stimulus money for schools and was warned not to count on that money for future budgets. That warning was ignored. The Philly schools included it in their budgets anyway and when it was no longer there they blamed Corbett for cutting money to our schools. Rendell gave $8,586,962 of state funds in 2010/2011 and added $1,042,562 one-time federal stimulus money, so when Corbett gave more ($9,083,300) of state funds and was given $0 from the federal government, it looked like Corbett gave less. Wolf and his friends who donated $1.13 million to his campaign have continued to lie about this.
Tom Corbett eliminated more than $1 billion in taxes and reduced government spending for the first time in 40 years. Wolf plans on increasing the income tax on hard-working middle-class families, while he pays a tax rate 56 percent less than the average Pennsylvanian.
Fracking companies pay 12 percent taxes overall, which is higher than all other natural gas-drilling states. They already pay more taxes than even Texas, so adding an extraction tax will hurt all Pennsylvanians. Tax revenue from Pennsylvania’s 9.9-percent corporation tax is collected to make up for the extraction tax. Wolf says he will over-tax these companies anyway. Bottom line: Taxes kill jobs.
Tom Corbett created over 184,000 private sector jobs since 2011. Wolf laid off 15 percent of his employees in 2011. He also moved his company to Maryland.
Tom Corbett understands that pension reform means property tax relief for Pennsylvania homeowners. Wolf denies the existence of a pension crisis.
I am a small business owner and currently have my own music school. I am very concerned that if Tom Wolf wins this election, my taxes will skyrocket and I will be forced to close my business. This will unfortunately result in a layoff for the music teachers, and the students will suffer because they will be forced to give up music lessons. The “Wolf taxes” will hurt us all.
Gary Grisafi
Republican Leader, 53rd Ward
Let’s drill, baby, drill
Fellow Philadelphians, as we begin to turn on the heat in our homes, please keep in mind that we’re facing an energy crisis.
We’re dependent on unstable fair-weather friends for our energy. And it doesn’t help that those hippie, liberal, green, tree-hugging environmentalists won’t let us drill, baby, drill for oil and gas any old place we want, no matter who or what is living there or what the environment is like. Don’t forget to turn your thermostat way down and put on a sweater.
Now, back to reality. We are once again the world’s leading producer of oil, having passed Russia and Saudi Arabia.
Conservation is working: As our production is increasing our consumption is decreasing. We import just 21 percent of the liquid fuels we consume, down from 60 percent in 2005. A terminal built in Texas to import natural gas from Qatar is being converted to export natural gas to Qatar. And this summer a tanker full of crude oil set sail from Galveston for South Korea, our first unrestricted export of oil outside of North America in nearly four decades.
Howard J. Wilk
Bustleton
Return stolen statue
To the person or persons involved in stealing my angel statue from the front lawn of my home, you are scum. That statue was a gift when my mother passed away 18 years ago and it has been there until you decided it belonged to you. I grew up with my mother teaching me that if it wasn’t yours, you don’t touch it. Well, I can see you were not taught the same.
I am asking you to return it, no questions asked. How you live with yourself, I do not know. What it means to me, it could never mean to you.
If you cannot return it to the place where it belongs, shame on you. You are just another individual in this crazy mixed up world where a persons possessions seem to belong to anyone who wants to steal them.
Barbara Short
Lexington Park
