Redirect casino tax revenues The Editorial Board / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette © Provided by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Casino tax subsidies totaling almost $3.3 billion have gone to the state’s horse racing industry since 2004. It’s time to redirect a substantial portion of those monies to other needs in Pennsylvania.
A recent poll by Franklin & Marshall College found that 83% of respondents favored using the $240 million annual allocation for other public purposes than the support of horse racing. Only 10% of those surveyed wanted to keep the current arrangement.
The poll, commissioned by Education Voters of Pennsylvania, found that there was overwhelming support for redirecting the 12% of slots tax funding that now goes to the Race Horse Development Fund.
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Harrisburg politicians are up to their shenanigans believing we are not paying attention. They plan to use our tax dollars to further enrich owners of private and religious schools.
Senate Bill 1, introduced by Sen. Scott Martin to the Senate Education Committee, would:
Increase tax breaks to businesses and corporations who support private and religious schools, then increase that by 25% each year. Cost: $300M this year; $1B over five years.
Empower a commission of political appointees to open charter schools without school board and taxpayer approval. Cost: In 2019-20 alone we, the Pennsylvania taxpayers, spent $2B on charter school tuition bills, which is money taken away from our local schools.
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