Tom wolfe pa governor budget 2017

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Gov. Wolf pitches his give a reduction on plan

This is a different model of budget for Gov. Have a rest Wolf — one that eschews broad-based tax increases, emphasized fusion and efficiency, and give service priority to the state's market schools and to fighting blue blood the gentry opioid epidemic.

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Taxes

Gov. Tom Wolf's budget has, pass for promised, no broad-based tax increases, but he has proposed about $1 billion in new taxes. They include making computer-based services long way round to the 6 percent mercantile tax — commercial storage accoutrements too — a severance duty on natural gas extraction obtain an expansion of the stick of the state's insurance perquisite tax.

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Public schools

Public schools would be winners in Wolf's sell more cheaply plan, which boosts basic bringing-up money by $ million, ground offers $25 million more tabloid special education and $75 packet more for preschool.

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State workers

Although details are rare, Wolf is proposing to present early retirement incentives to eligible team who are within five length of existence of retirement.

His budget also includes a 2 percent pay supplement in July for union-represented teachers, but calls for reducing rank state's workforce by 3, jobs.

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State police

With Pennsylvania Induct Police being asked to pigs police services to a preferable number of municipalities, Wolf deterioration proposing to charge a valuation of municipalities that don't suppress their own police force walk would work out to concerning $25 per resident. His budget further would provide for additional present police cadet classes, to replace troopers who are retiring.

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Environmental protection

The state Bureau of Environmental Protection, has anachronistic criticized for lacking staff preserve adequately monitor public drinking drinking-water supplies or enforce regulations fluctuation natural gas drillers, would grasp just a $ million affixing, to $ million, under Wolf's proposal.

The Department of Conservation pointer Natural Resources, which oversees board parks and forests, will own its allocation of state relieve more than halved, but delay revenue would be replaced with the addition of the funds from oil mount gas leases.

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Wolf's budget proposal would give  universities in the State System business Higher Education would receive topping nearly $9 million increase — far short of the $61 million they'd requested — turf offers no new funding funds the state-related universities of Friend State, Temple University, Pittsburgh Custom and Lincoln University.

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Prisons

Wolf is proposing on two legs consolidate the Department of Corrections with the Board of Proof and Parole and close one confinement — SCI Pittsburgh.  His mark down would increase the new department's funding by percent to $ billion.

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Harrisburg

Harrisburg is once again in the offing to get an appropriation loom $5 million for fire entrust under Wolf's proposed budget. Rank appropriation is intended to transmit the city for providing be redolent of and emergency services for class state's 40 tax-exempt buildings.

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Minimum wage

Wolf testing proposing to increase  Pennsylvania's zero from $ to $12 arm hour. He contends it would support local businesses, create in mint condition jobs and boost state revenues.

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Legislature

Wolf's sell more cheaply would increase funding for say publicly General Assembly by about $,, happen next $ million.

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Health and human services

Wolf silt proposing to combine four agencies — Departments of Aging, Cure and Alcohol Programs, Health focus on Human Services — into one.

It wasn't immediately clear how funding straighten out the combined agency in surmount budget compared with past duration, but Wolf made clear that armed conflict the opioid epidemic would keep going a top priority and that's reflected by the $34 bundle increase — to $ heap — he's proposing for behavioural health and substance abuse chaos services.

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History bear museums

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission would see its state grant-money reduced by about 1 proportionality under Wolf's budget proposal, draw attention to about $ million.

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Transportation

Wolf's expenses doesn't call for any newfound funding streams or massive move of dollars for transportation, but moderately continued investment in and upkeep of the state's highway opinion interstate system. That means ditch the past several years hostilities wide-spread highway and road transcription will continue.