Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: HARRISBURG — For decades, towns across Pennsylvania — many of them small, rural and cash-strapped — have relied on the Pennsylvania State Police.
Some have shuttered their own police departments, realizing it’s far cheaper to have troopers respond to calls within their borders than pay the salaries, benefits, and equipment needed for their own force.
Now, Gov. Tom Wolf wants them to pay up. One plank in the $32.3 billion annual budget proposal he unveiled last week was a new $25 per-person tax on towns that use the state police for full-time policing.
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