Read Governor Corbett's Budget: The Full Speech
We’ll try to make sense of the numbers and priorities laid out by Governor Corbett in his first budget address to the General Assembly in a special, live Smart Talk presentation, Tuesday, March 8, 7-8 p.m. on WITF-TV (simulcast on witf FM 89.5 & 93.3). Our panel of experts and opinion-makers will take your phone calls and emails. Send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or call in starting at 7 p.m. to 1-800-729-7532.
Our on-set panel includes Scott Detrow, WITF’s capitol bureau chief, Berwood Yost, director of the Floyd Institute for Public Policy and the Center for Opinion Research at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Matthew Brouillette, president and CEO of The Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives, and Sharon Ward, director of the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center at the Keystone Research Center. Joining us via phone will be Senate Minority Leader Jay Costa (D-Allegheny), House Minority Appropriations Chairman Joseph Markosek (D-Allegheny/Westmoreland), and Tom Gentzel, executive director of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association.
Gov. Corbett’s budget secretary, Charles Zogby, previewed the speech last week at the Pennsylvania Press Club and warned of “a day of reckoning” for Pennsylvania’s fiscal affairs. "No more reliance on federal stimulus funds, no more gimmicks, no more use of one-time funding sources," Zogby declared. The state faces a $4 billion deficit and the end of federal stimulus funding that had helped the state weather the financial recession. The governor is expected to announce steep spending reductions and possibly layoffs of state workers.
We want to hear your thoughts on Gov. Corbett’s plan. Be sure to call in live starting at 7 p.m. to 1-800-729-7532, email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or post a comment to www.facebook.com/witf.org.
Read Governor Corbett's Budget: The Full Speech
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I watched as taxes were cut on the richest Americans and corporations by Bush/Cheney while they also engaged in very expensive war spending:
economic suicide.
Bush started out with a surplus and ended his reign with America more than 11 Trillion in the hole, weakened, by practicing an economic strategy which made only the rich richer, and everyone else poorer. The middle class dissolved.
Corbett is following the same mindset.
The Republican tact seems to believe that TrickleDown will in the long run work:
though it's more like Trickle Down Syndrome from a geneticist's view.
Republicans used to stand for sensible spending, conservative policies.
No longer.
They're now official looters and pillagers for their wealthy donors.
Follow the money, like any crime, to see who's responsible.
TEXYLVANIA, THE RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF THE GAS INDUSTRY
as long as his neighborhood's roads and water are ruined as well and share the risk, then I'd be accepting but I really have my doubts he'll buy a house himself in a such risk area.
Additionally on education,vouch ers. Costs are going to go up by spreading kids out it's simple principle of economy of scale.
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