Tom Corbett and Taxes

Tom Corbett won't raise taxes. He won't raise taxes ever on anyone. You might ask how that works. How can he run a state with a large deficit if he doesn't tax. Well, the answer is he cuts lots of spending. Some of those cuts, actually a lot of them, come out of education. He is also changing the way school districts are reimbursed for Social Security expenses, a change which will hit wealthier school districts hardest. They will have to do something to make up the difference, something like ... raise taxes. So Corbett won't have to raise taxes on anyone, not even the large corporations drilling for natural gas in Pennsylvania. He will make it so someone else will have to do his dirty work. This makes him, at best, a liar. At worst .. well, I'll let you make up your own mind. Whatever he is, though, it isn't an opponent of taxes. He's an opponent of having to be responsible for raising taxes. He might just be an opponent of being responsible.