Sunday, April 1, 2012

Pennsylvania does not tax Pensions

Pennsylvania also does not tax lottery winnings.  If you win the Mega Millions in  Pennsylvania, all you would have to do is pay Federal Tax.  Yet some in Pennsylvania are calling for the state to tax pensions.   They claim that it is unfair.  They claim that it will wipe out deficits and do all kinds of things that can benefit the state --well we all know how that works.  If pensions were taxed, the general fund would see  more money "raised" for the "poor" and those who feel they are "entitled" to services.
The fact is that many of these people receiving "aid"  will never work nor have a pension.  They live off the state and everyone else's money in the first place.  In every state there are people who are "generational"  in their entitlements and they know how to bleed the system, which is the real problem that is not addressed since these "generational free loaders" vote.   There are many who are deserving of help and there are poor and ill and elderly people who have genuine needs.  
Some people choose to live together and have multiple children and they receive thousands of dollars in support -- far more than most pensioners make -- and they still whine and think they are entitled to more, despite the fact that they receive free and low income housing.  Many of them are young which makes the entire thing disgusting.  Yet they have money for other things and often buy drugs and booze or go to casinos with the money that is supposedly for necessities for their children.  They will never pay any income tax -- for generations.
Some in Pennsylvania want to now tax pensions.  What a unique state in a time when all other states are money grabbers and the money is wasted on so many so called "important"  and "necessary" entitlements.  Taxing the pensions of the elderly who have worked so that there could be entitlements in the first place is not the answer.  They  (whoever is behind this move to tax pensions)  know that but they want "more."   After all, they are entitled to it and  the rest of society ends up taking care of many who sadly are irresponsible in the first place and who have a long history of making everyone else pay for their "living."  But politicians like votes and power and whatever else can keep them in office.

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