Pennsylvania is in crisis — a crisis that threatens our future.
There are two paths we can take. Governor Wolf is fighting to invest in education, eliminate the deficit, meet critical human service needs, and put Pennsylvania back on track. The failed status quo, meanwhile, will lead to more education cuts, higher property taxes, fewer services, a bigger deficit, and the promise of a fiscal catastrophe. We have a choice. It is time to fund our schools. It is time to face financial reality. It is time to give Pennsylvania the bright future it deserves.
Pennsylvania Republican legislators also have a choice to make. They can work with the governor to pass a budget that is balanced, fixes the deficit, and makes targeted investments in areas like education, or they can choose the failed status quo and let Pennsylvania fall off a financial cliff.
If Pennsylvania Republican legislators choose to remain on the path of the failed status quo that we have traveled down for far too long, if they choose a path that continues to ignore financial reality and pretends the commonwealth’s budget is in balance when it clearly is not, they will be saddling the people of Pennsylvania with higher property taxes, massive education cuts, reduced services for seniors, and fiscal disaster.
The choice is clear. The time for inaction is over — we can either plummet ourselves into a fiscal catastrophe unlike any the state has ever experienced; or we can pave a way to a brighter future that makes historic investments in our schools and jobs that pay, and get back on sound financial footing.
