69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_jcbg19e wrote on March 15, 2023 at 5:15 PM

Reply to comment by ITcurmudgeon in Filing my part-year resident taxes, and realized that Pennsylvania is truly hell on earth by [deleted]

So to be clear, you have no idea what you think it should cost to operate a legislature and you're just complaining like a Facebook Grandpa?

 
> And the rank and file representatives are all now clearing six digits in salary,

 
Woopty fuckin' doo, it isn't 1965 anymore. Their base salary is $90K last I checked. That ain't much.

 
If you're concerned about waste let's go after the PA State Police, who have a budget in excess of $831m per year and suck up a huge amount of our gas taxes that should be going to highways.

ITcurmudgeon t1_jcbk127 wrote on March 15, 2023 at 5:39 PM

Yeah well, you should check again cause they're now all clearing 100k. They recently voted themselves CoL increases. It's not like corruption and waste are some new and crazy thing when it comes to our representatives, but it is obviously something you give little Fucks about.

And yeah, the state police appropriating money that should be going to the states highways is a special level of dumbfuckery which has lead to us having one of the highest gas taxes at the fuel pump and the costliest toll roads in the nation.

69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_jcbl53a wrote on March 15, 2023 at 5:46 PM

> Yeah well, you should check again cause they're now all clearing 100k.

 
And that is peanuts. It isn't 1965 anymore.
 
Every number I can find indicates that they're spending less than two tenths of a percent of the state budget to operate the General Assembly. There are bigger fish to fry.