The Short End of the Stick
Here it is not one week after the election and the DEM-O-CRAPS have started the “WE ARE HELPING YOU” routine.

Here in the Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania, were in our Constitution, it starts out WE THE PEOPLE of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of civil and religious liberty, and humbly invoking His guidance, do ordain and establish this Constitution, are going to find our self’s on the short end of the so called stick for the next four years.

On November 13, 2006, Governor Ed Rendell fired his first broadside on the people of Pennsylvania with 11.5 cents per gallon gasoline tax. This may not be bad if the tax on gasoline as will as alcohol, cigarettes and tobacco products was on the cost of that product and not a tax on the tax already on that product.

What the news media was reporting when gasoline was over $3.00 per gallon, was that there was state and federal taxes of over .50 cents per gallon and now will this new tax, it will be over .60 cents per gallon, and we haven’t heard from the newly elected DEM-O-CRAPS in Washington DC.

What was that the good old boys feed all the mushrooms before election, we will be a government of the people, well I guess you can see what people they were talking about, the ones in the big cities that voted for them.

The governor says that this new tax will go to fix roads and bridges and to pay for mass transit, well lets see, we have bridges out in areas of the southern end for years, so does this mean that the state will fix them, nay I don’t think so, not on state roads. How about this great mass transit system we have here in Lancaster County, I don’t know about you but I have to drive over 10 miles to find a bus stop, so I guess this tax increase will not help the mass transit system on the southern end, unless they take that money and put it into a plan to put a light rail system on the old railroad to run form Christiana to Lancaster City linking up with Amtrak with parking areas.

Some of the other increases that are being proposed are and increase in motor vehicle registrations and driver licenses, an increase in the realty transfer tax from 1% to 1.89% as well as letting each municipality to collect a .5% realty transfer tax (This should encourage real state sales by making the cost of buying a home that much higher.) and enabling all counties and municipalities to impose their own sales tax of .25 % on top of what ever the state will raise theirs to. Almost forgot the .20 % earned income tax increase.

I have to ask, HAS THE LIGHT GONE ON IN THE MUSHROOM HOUSE YET? Or are you still in the dark as to what has happen to not only Lancaster County, but also the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the rest of the country.

Do a Google search on tax increase under news and see what you find; I found that after election there were a lot of states that all of a sudden received reports and recommendations for tax plans that were not released before election day that may have changed the minds of the voters, but the MUSHROOMS HAVE SPOKEN.

The 2008 elections are around the corner and you need to take note as to what is happening now so as you can make a decision then, but in the meantime we have to hold the people in power, the good-o-boys accountable to all and not let them give our tax money away to a few.

I don’t care about the mass transit system in Philadelphia or Pittsburg or any were else, what I do care about is why I have to fund them. Its bad enough that our federal tax dollars go to fund the airlines and Amtrak and do you the taxpayer get a free pass to use them?

If you have a business and if can’t support itself, can you go to the government time after time and say I NEED MORE MONEY OR I WILL GO OUT OF BUSINESS and get more tax money to stay in business or does the government say sorry about that.

Its bad enough that between the school tax, township tax and county tax, my home property tax went from $1200.00 to over $1800.00 last year and that was because of what, highway and road maintenance and there was a promise to do away with the school tax, what happen there.

Now if you’re a farmer it’s different, check out “America's Farm Subsidy” at http://www.ewg.org/farm/ and you can see more of your tax money at work and just think of the tax break they get on that there farm land when it comes to land value. (Good farmland is going for $100,000 per acre or more here in Lancaster County and you know that its not taxed at that price or there would be no farms)

WAKE UP MUSHROOMS, these elected officials are in power and its up to all you to hold them accountable for the use of your tax dollar. Call Them, Write Them, E-mail Them, demand to know just what they are doing for YOU and if you don’t like what they are doing let them know, and if they don’t change remember that the next election, after all, they were voted in, and they can be voted out just as quick. The elected officials work for you, not you for them.

-- William H. LeMon, Sr. of East Drumore Township

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POSTED 061115_0700  ET