I’ll tell you what’s wrong with late Pa. budgets. First some background.

Every Pennsylvanian with minimal awareness of state government and politics knows budgets here tend to be late. It’s sort of our thing.

Take this year. The state’s spending plan — how to use roughly $50 billion of your taxes — was supposed to be settled by June 30. It wasn’t. It still hasn’t been.

Or maybe it has. I’m not certain. I long ago stopped hard-focusing on late budget fiascos once I learned two things: there will be a budget; until then, it’s just a parade of protests and promises.

Predictable, too. Democrats want to spend more. Republicans want to spend less. But as for inspiring innovations? Bold reforms? Most of these players would rather go home than go big.

And it’s not like whatever they do or don

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