Pennsylvania's Old Tax Joke

There's an article in today's Morning Call about how some of our elected officials are surprised that the long promised property tax relief didn't make it into the final budget. How Shocking!!!

Pennsylvania absorbed the Casino revenues, without ever providing property owners with meaningful tax relief. Not only didn't the casinos bring relief, neither did its gambling predecessor, the lottery... That false promise hasn't delivered in over forty years.

Neither did hydraulic fracking, or even pot, when they legalized it for medical use. I don't know if marijuana will make you insane, but voting for the same candidates and parties, with the same false promises, election after election, is nuts. 

Pennsylvania's problem was never lack of revenue, it's always been a lack of priorities and ethics.