GOP lawmakers on wrong track
In Sunday’s paper, Mr. Matthew Dowling, owner of Coordinated 360, a video and event planning company in Fayette County, said he would run to become the 51st District Representative in Harrisburg.
I believe, after reading the article, that Mr. Dowling is in most respects a good hard working person. My concern is that Mr. Dowling would work for the one purpose the GOP in Harrisburg has fought Gov. Wolf on. And that’s taxes.
Our current GOP legislators in Harrisburg have been hard at work to have the middle class and working-poor pay the bill for big business and the already rich.
The GOP tax plan is to eliminate property taxes and sales taxes on big business, real estate developers, gas and oil industry, resorts, and landlords that build and rent office buildings in cities like Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. The GOP tax plan will eliminate all school taxes and sales taxes from these businesses while the working poor and the middle class get an increase in their wage tax from 3.07 percent to 4.95 percent and sales tax from 6 percent to 7 percent. This will put the middle class and the working poor deeper in debt.
Our current legislators, state Sen. Pat Stefano, R-Bullskin Township, and Ryan Warner, R-Perryopolis, have been shown to be championing the cause of the rich over the rest and have no problem changing the tax codes to allow the fleecing of the poor and middle class. Let’s hope Mr. Dowling cares more about Pennsylvanians then he does about supporting special interest causes.
The first question that should be asked of Mr. Dowling is this. Do you support a tax plan that allows business and special interest causes to pay no school or sales tax while doing business in Pennsylvania?
The people of Fayette County will remember next November that Stefano and Warner crusaded for a tax scheme to benefit those that can afford to pay and the fleecing of the middle class and working poor. They allowed and are part of the GOP tax scheme to keep the people of Pennsylvania from getting a fair and balanced budget to move Pennsylvania forward. The GOP leadership in Harrisburg has gone on record as saying the budget will not get done until their demands that special interest causes pay no taxes is agreed on.
If you, like me, have kids in school, you want the locally elected school representatives deciding what your school needs, not some legislator in Harrisburg, who only cares about the next election and keeping his big money donors happy.
The GOP attitude is “Why should the rich pay property or sales tax to keep our schools running?” The middle class and working poor are the ones with kids, let them pay for everything.
Sue Baus is a resident of Uniontown.