Deliberately understaffed and underfunded.

Pennsylvania's "job creators" (/S) firmly believe that if YOU are not slaving away earning them profit, then YOU should do the right thing and disappear.

PA's "job creators" (/S) tend to vote Republican....and support anyone who promises to strip away worker protections.

Yeah, that sounds about right for a tester.

Explains why we have more than our fair share of shitty, incompetent drivers, too.

No, they call YOU and tell you to "street" the patient as soon as possible to avoid any further costs after the insurance company refuses to pay for treatment.

How else is the insurance company gonna see profits, after all?

PA gonna offer the same refund to the trucking carriers that use the Turnpike?

Cause doing so might tempt more carriers to open up the Turnpike to their drivers, thus lessening the ever-increasing congestion on I-80. Either that, or toll I-80 at the same rate as the Turnpike.

Colleges and universities today are little more than Pro-Am sports teams that occasionally waste their "student" athletes time with classes. The rest of the school literally exists to support the sports teams. Especially Basketball and Football.

April 12, 1945.

The day the "American Dream" died.

Bow many other trains made it to their respective destinations with no issue despite the depressing lack of safety inspections today?

$3mil is not even a drop in the bucket of the petty cash for these corporations. Their daily revenue stream runs into the BILLIONS.

I argued that western PA gets ignored. You are going on about various issues.

You obviously are bored and looking for a fight, or are just an asshole.

Either way, goodbye. Fucknut.

Did I say anything about the Governor? No, I did not. I said we often feel ignored on the western side in favor of Philly and the regions surrounding Philly.

Most of the state's money seems to funnel into the East, specifically the SouthEast.

But you make it purely a political party thing because you can't think past Red and Blue. Really shows the level of critical, reasonable thought you are capable of.

Learned it in an Intro to Criminal Justice class about 20 years ago. May be outdated information.

I grew up before the internet. I'm more accustomed to relying on memory than anything else.

True, but there could be a greater sense of separation between the representatives from Philly itself and the surrounding communities that have been by and large enveloped by Philly.

But I'm from the western edge of the state. We're pretty resigned, generally speaking, to being essentially either ruled by Philly or ignored in favor of Philly.

And you would be speaking the truth.

Government fears an armed populace ALMOST as much as it fears an EDUCATED populace.

And an armed, educated populace? Post-apocalyptic nightmare fuel right there.

Philly would ban all firearms except those carried by their own uniformed thugs (police) if they could. All while ignoring all of their far, FAR more obvious problems.

And this is coming from a trucker who once got shot at down by the Eddystone Port facilities because his TRUCK was the wrong color!

Class One cities in all states run a bit different. More like classical City-States within their respective state/Commonwealth structures.

City of Philadelphia Police have state-wide jurisdiction like the State Police.

Philadelphia can (and do) set their own firearms control laws that affect the entire County.

Philadelphia has economic advantages closer to the Commonwealth's advantages over say the City of Erie's economic advantages, allowing Philadelphia to offer more in the way of tax incentives for incoming and current businesses.

Philadelphia maintains a higher level of representation in PA's state government than any other city.

My primary point was the financial gains that can be made by reporting employee misclassification, which happens more than many people think. You are correct in that the IRS misses most cases.

But allowing employee misclassification is also a form of wage theft. It is literally your employer stealing money from you. Which is why it should not be tolerated.

It is truly a failure on society's part that people can be so easily victimized just because of someone else's greed. There are reason why every major religious faith lists greed as a major sin or crime.

Is misclassifying an employee as an Independent Contractor. And the IRS has been on the warpath against employee misclassification for the last few years.

Whoever reports the employer will get rewarded by the IRS. Everyone will get fucked since the IRS ALWAYS gets their money...unless, of course, you are one of the wealthy elites.

If the job is paying 1200/month cash, your cousin will need to talk to a good CPA on how to fill his taxes as an independent contractor. And since it is seasonal work, he/she/they will also need to be on the lookout for a stopgap job they are able to do for the part of the year not covered by seasonal lawn work.

I don't have any recommendations because I do not know what your cousin's limitations are, or what accommodations are needed. I'm presuming that the frequent hospitalization is most likely pointing to chronic health issues.

You would be very, very surprised at how cheap a politician is willing to sell your future and your children's future for.

Plus, we never get to see how much is donated in other ways to politicians for supporting corporate causes. What other way is there to explain how political figures frequently leave office millions of dollars richer than when they went in?

Bribery, graft, and corruption are rampant throughout the entire American political spectrum.

The only plates PennDOT gets bitchy about are the commercial Apportioned plates used by the bigger commercial trucks. They don't give a single furry fuck about the plate on the back of your parent's Buick or your F-150. Do whatever you want with that plate. Wallpaper your garage with old plates. Hell, use old plates to wipe your ass if you are brave.

Outlawing alcohol won't solve the problem. What you need is a well-funded long-term education program targeting young people like the anti-smoking campaigns have. Those have proven to be overall successful strategies, getting more and more young people to not even start smoking as they view it as a disgusting habit (which it is, from a former two pack a day smoker).

Studies show that fewer and fewer young people are picking up cigarettes these days. Even "vaping" is slowly disappearing amongst young people. Long-term campaigns work.

Being a Reno graduate is no joke. At least, not a joke a Reno graduate would understand.

Crawford as well. Fuck emissions tests.

People from outside of PA, being generally weirdos, have an annoying tendency to refer to interstates as "The (highway number)" rather than I-(highway number) like normal folk.

Lands End winter jacket with hood, good water resistant and insulated boots, consider thermal undies until you get acclimated.