Pennsylvania Dem Gov Tom Wolf Slammed For “Payday Loan” As Second Budget Impasse Passes 100 Day Mark

Pennsylvania has lurched from budget crisis to crisis under failed Democrat Governor Tom Wolf. Now embroiled in his second budget impasse, Pennsylvania’s budget troubles show no signs of ending.

This weekend, Wolf’s latest budget crisis passed the 100 day mark. That’s 100 days without a properly funded budget.

John Baer, writing for the Inquirer, calls it “Gov. Wolf’s scary fairy tale” and criticizes Wolf’s unilateral decision to borrow $1.25 billion from the future profits of the Liquor Control Board (Pennsylvania’s state-run alcohol sales system).

“Wolf’s action… raises questions: about governing by fiscal fiat.”

It’s just more “head-shaking lunacy that is Pennsylvania governance” without “any fundamental reforms”.

The Express-Times is calling it Tom Wolf’s “payday loan”.

The Intelligencer is calling Wolf’s plan “crazy” and lambastes it as “unprecedented” long-term borrowing that will set Pennsylvania on a “financially perilous path“.

Tom Wolf is the common denominator underlying Pennsylvania’s budget woes – and now he’s recklessly borrowing instead of leading and working to form a compromise.