“12 Gifts of Christmas” presented by Gov. Ed Rendell:
Gift #1: As one of his first initial actions as Governor, he traded in his taxpayer-funded Ford sedan for a Cadillac, then…
Gift #2: …proceeded in his first budget to raise taxes and fees on hard-working Pennsylvanians and businesses by a staggering $1 billion, including…
Gift #3: …a brutal 10 percent increase in the state’s income tax (he originally wanted a 30 percent increase). As a result, Gov. Rendell is forcing Pennsylvanians to put millions more of their hard-earned dollars into state coffers for pet projects like…
Gift #4: …A $30 million grant to help build a skyscraper in center city Philadelphia for his friends at corporate giant Comcast, while also trying to…
Gift #5: …Raise fees by a whopping $110 million on everything from emissions stickers to tires to personal driving records. With so much spending and a considerable wish list to tax more, it’s no wonder…
Gift #6: …Unemployment in Pennsylvania continues to rise and the manufacturing sector has lost jobs nearly every month since Gov. Rendell took office, so…
Gift #7: …To reward manufactures for their trouble, Gov. Rendell has sought a crushing round of higher taxes on manufactures for emissions that are permitted under state and federal law. Such a fate could soon befall the small business sector, thanks to…
Gift #8: …Gov. Rendell’s consistent efforts to create roadblocks for small business growth. Small businesses employ more than half of all Pennsylvania workers, yet unlike large corporations like Comcast, their concerns are ignored, much like…
Gift #9: … the brave servicemen and women of our state who nearly didn’t have enough time to cast their absentee ballots in the November presidential election because Gov. Rendell took the families of two Pennsylvania servicemen to court to fight their efforts to extend Pennsylvania’s deadline for overseas absentee ballots, while…
Gift #10: …paying college fraternity brother and John Kerry operative Mark Aronchick $75,000 in taxpayer money to represent the state in the case, while later…
Gift #11: …vetoing Republican-authored legislation designed to eliminate the ability of state officials to have an ownership stake in one of Pennsylvania’s new slot machine venues, as well as prevent organized crime from entering our state. But he may not have actually vetoed the legislation because…
Gift #12: …somehow, unbelievably, Gov. Rendell apparently vetoed an earlier version of the bill that no longer exists. This unexplainable gaffe is the latest in a long series of miscues and sloppy work done by Gov. Rendell since he first took office almost two years ago.
“Unfortunately, the Rendell Administration doesn’t have a return policy for these items,” said Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Alan Novak. “Some of these ‘gifts’ are new and others are old, but they just keep taking from Pennsylvania taxpayers.”
Santa, check your naughty list for the name "Edward"
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