PA Groups Want to Steal Marcellus $ to Fund “Free” College Educ

On Tuesday, two left-leaning, Harrisburg-based Democrat groups with innocent sounding names--the Keystone Research Center and the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center--introduced what they labeled as “The Pennsylvania Promise” during a presentation in the Capitol Rotunda. We call it "The Pennsylvania Grand Theft." No doubt inspired by autocrat Andrew Cuomo in the state next door and his "free college tuition" program, the groups want to give away a "free" college education to PA residents who go to a PA state college or university. Of course nothing is free. The program would cost $1 billion a year and would be funded in part by (you guessed it), a Marcellus Shale severance tax. The personal state income tax would also go up in order to help pay for this "free" program. How is this not theft? Transferring money from those who work hard to earn it--to those who don't. Government theft, plain and simple. We have such a program here in New York State and people are leaving our state in DROVES. Year in and year out NY loses population, particularly in the Upstate region. Socialism, the transference of wealth from those who earn it to those who don't (or won't), eventually breaks down when the earners get tired of being shaken down by their government and move away. That's what will happen in PA if a cockamamie plan like "The Pennsylvania Promise" is adopted...

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