May 24, 2009 2 min read

Booked your flight yet? Our good governor, Ed Rendell has made a sweetheart deal for everyone in Pennsylvania who always wanted to go to Paris. Your tickets will only cost a little over $700 each, then you will need hotel arrangements, meals, do some sight-seeing and so on. A family of four could possibly get by with under $50,000, about what it takes for a family of four to go see the Yankees play in their new sweetheart, taxpayer financed ballpark. With all of these economic opportunities that our government is providing for us, I believe that it won’t be too much longer until we can eliminate taxes completely. A deal was cut between Delta airlines, the Allegheny Conference, and the Pennsylvania taxpayers (represented at the blackjack table by “Spend it All, It’s Only Tax Money,” Fast Eddie Rendell).

You pledged $2.5 million to ensure that Delta makes a profit in this venture. The Allegheny Conference will donate $2.5 million in the first year, then taxpayers will donate the third year.

Now the Allegheny Conference will probably have some members who will actually fly to Paris (real taxpayers, people who actually pay their taxes, not like our politicians), but most of us couldn’t even afford the plane tickets let alone the rest of the package.

Now, I’m sure that this is a real profitable deal for us, just like the new Yankee stadium, PNC Park, Heinz Field, the new Penguins arena and so on. Have you ever wondered, why if these are such good business deals, don’t the Rooneys, McClatcheys, and Lemieuxs fund them and reap all the profits?

I think that the taxpayers have had enough profitable deals for two or three lifetimes, (approximately how long it will take to pay for these deals.) Where do all of the profits go, the state treasury? More likely the Fast Eddie Retirement Fund.

John Catlett

Smithfield