Letter to the editor: Living in Pa. is taxing

I agree with letter-writer Dwayne Buffer (“Officials keep sticking it to electorate.”) Gov. Tom Wolf hasn’t seen a tax he didn’t like. He seems to spend all his waking hours coming up with new ways to soak the common citizen.

Pennsylvania has one of the highest gas taxes in the nation. We pay income tax and property tax. There’s a sin tax on cigarettes and alcohol, plus taxes on entertainment and surcharges on our cable and phone bills. Now they tax the internet. Shall I go on?

We keep hearing “it’s time to fully fund education.” When I went to school, they gave me a pencil, tablet and box of crayons. Now you’re supposed to buy your school supplies. People think that’s normal. It’s not. The school used to provide supplies.

What about college? I thought you went there for an education. Now they seem to be party palaces with basketball and tennis courts, exercise rooms, swimming pools and “safe spaces” where stressed-out students can go tap on their phone and color pictures. No wonder so many of them are strapped with debt when they graduate, and then can’t find a job in Pennsylvania and move out of state.

Pennsylvania has been run by tax-and-spend Democrats for years. When are people going to wake up and elect some folks who can manage a budget and quit ripping off the turnpike? Maybe then we can get the road fixed.

Jerry Miller

North Huntingdon