{"id":31897,"date":"2025-11-12T10:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/31897\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T10:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:22:08","slug":"seeking-answers-about-pennsylvanias-budget-impasse-letter-letters-to-the-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/31897\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking answers about Pennsylvania\u2019s budget impasse [letter] | Letters To The Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How is it not criminal that state lawmakers continue to collect taxpayer-funded paychecks and travel expenses and even host campaign events \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/lancasteronline.com\/news\/politics\/gridlock-continues-over-pa-budget-straining-finances-for-counties-schools-nonprofits-lancaster-watchdog\/article_bbf46d15-1a7a-4503-8241-f2325e3bc951.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">while failing to pass a budget on time<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>How is it OK that school districts are faced with paying interest and borrowing fees on the loans they\u2019ve had to take out because lawmakers haven\u2019t passed a state budget?<\/p>\n<p>Why should Pennsylvania taxpayers be expected to keep paying taxes when state payments and programs are halted because the budget is more than four months late?<\/p>\n<p>If I failed to do my job, abused my position or didn\u2019t show up, I\u2019d be fired.<\/p>\n<p>Why do we continue to vote for people who shape laws in their favor?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time for accountability. Politics on both sides of the aisle have gotten out of control.<\/p>\n<p>Diane Ferree<\/p>\n<p>East Donegal Township<\/p>\n<p>\n                Success! An email has been sent to  with a link to confirm list signup.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Error! There was an error processing your request.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How is it not criminal that state lawmakers continue to collect taxpayer-funded paychecks and travel expenses and even&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[227,28,30,29,1978,5800],"class_list":["post-31897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-education","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-state-budget","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}