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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-30-11 06:03 PM
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Edited on Thu Jun-30-11 06:38 PM by RamboLiberal
State lawmakers have less than eight hours left to send the remaining pieces of the state budget to the governor's desk by the deadline this evening.

While they sent Gov. Tom Corbett a state spending bill last night, the governor says that measure will sit unsigned until he receives another bill to restrict the ability of school districts to hike property taxes above the rate of inflation.

"He's waiting on the House and Senate to finish their work on that," said Corbett spokesman Kevin Harley.

Mr. Harley said the governor wants to approve that bill along with the budget measures because school districts have been unable to hold the line on property taxes on their own.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11181/1157362-100.stm#ixzz1QnrLvLb4

I have a lot of problems with property taxes in this state - but wow Gov Corporate has sure handcuffed them. He wants to kill education esp in poor districts. Get ready to build more prisons in the coming years PA.
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