HeyZuesHChrist t1_j45wt44 wrote on January 13, 2023 at 11:36 AM

Reply to comment by Eurisfat in Pennsylvania Senate passes bill to cut state gas tax by wildfireonvenus

Make local municipalities hire their own police force and make the local residents pay for it.

PregnantSuperman t1_j45z37p wrote on January 13, 2023 at 12:02 PM

Realistically this would cause huge problems for communities. Small and financially distressed communities wouldn't be able to pay for it and jacking up tax rates would be a huge burden on people and/or incentivize them to leave.

You could counter that with an even stronger emphasis on regionalizing police departments, which I suspect is what would happen should the state police have to downsize.

69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j46ubrr wrote on January 13, 2023 at 4:01 PM

> jacking up tax rates would be a huge burden on people and/or incentivize them to leave.

 
Sounds good to me, there's no reason for anyone to live in most of Schuylkill County in 2022.

PregnantSuperman t1_j46vu8c wrote on January 13, 2023 at 4:11 PM

A lot of people don't have the means to just get up and move, but if you want to screw over impoverished people, having this attitude is a great way to do it.

69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j46w2xa wrote on January 13, 2023 at 4:12 PM

Rural Pennsylvania is highly subsidized to begin with, and they use their outsized weight in the legislature to fuck over the urbanized and productive parts of the state. I'm not going to cry for them and I don't owe them a thing.

BukkakeKing69 t1_j472py2 wrote on January 13, 2023 at 4:53 PM

This is BS. Plenty of destitute people have managed to move thousands of miles throughout history in huge migration waves. Today's poor don't move because they are subsidized enough to stay comfortably in place, even if the conditions aren't great.