<p>Check this out: <a href=“http://www.postgazette.com/pg/pdf/201103/20110311budgetcuts_taxes.pdf[/url]”>http://www.postgazette.com/pg/pdf/201103/20110311budgetcuts_taxes.pdf</a></p>
<p>If you know Allegheny County, then the targets become clear. Compare the size and the impacts of the cut in Mt. Lebanon or Fox Chapel vs. Wilkinsburg, McKeesport, or Pittsburgh. This is one example of what I mean by “selfish”. Even Andrew Carnegie, reviled by many, built public libraries.</p>
<p>The people proposing these cuts do so only AFTER their own education has been paid for and subsidized, and they still expect the younger generation to carry the economy and the military. That is also “selfish”. Sure we can go back to the Gilded Age, but it will be a different sort of society than we have now.</p>
<p>By the way, I run a business in Pennsylvania myself and taxes are a relatively small factor. The ability to hire is far more important. Pitt and CMU are huge factors keeping business here.</p>