She owns a triplex, lives in one and rents the other two out as a short term Airbnb rental.

Renting out your home when you're out on vacation or travelling for work? Not a business. Renting out something you own that you bought strictly to rent out and make money off of? Sure as shit sounds like a business to me.

I have Erie through Weimer Group and they are exceptional. Have an older truck (08 Silverado) that I'm paying well under $1000 / yr on for full coverage. You're mileage may vary obviously but I'd definitely check them out.

Yeah well, you should check again cause they're now all clearing 100k. They recently voted themselves CoL increases. It's not like corruption and waste are some new and crazy thing when it comes to our representatives, but it is obviously something you give little Fucks about.

And yeah, the state police appropriating money that should be going to the states highways is a special level of dumbfuckery which has lead to us having one of the highest gas taxes at the fuel pump and the costliest toll roads in the nation.

I would have less of a problem with their spending habits if they showed a wee bit more transparency. As a whole, our representatives put up a huge fight when it comes to disclosing their expenditures, since it will likely shine light on their wasteful and frivolous spending. So while you justify their spending as being a small part of the state budget, it is still taxpayer dollars that they are wasting and there are some very poor communities across our state that I'm sure would love to see some of that $50 million plus be redirected their way.

And the rank and file representatives are all now clearing six digits in salary, the third highest in the nation. And that's on top of their health care and generous pensions.

Dude, did you read any of the articles? That $51 million isn't the total cost of the legislature, that $51 million is just what our legislature is spending on expenses. Dinners, car rentals, lodgings and other perks that they refuse to disclose.

If criticizing our legislature for wasteful, unnecessary spending for self-enrichment is "perfect Facebook, grandpa" post, then so be it.

I'm pretty sure I linked to numbers in my previous post, but here's some more reading:

PA legislature crooked spending

I wasn't talking about the state budget, I was referring to the actual legislative body, our representatives, who make the laws. Next to New York, we have the largest, most expensive legislature in the nation.

For how large and costly they are, with their exceptionally high salaries, with their numerous assistants, and their assistants assistants, and their personal expenditures which they fight tooth and nail against disclosing publicly, they really get precious little done.

Fairly large? We have one of the largest, most bloated legislatures in the nation... If not THE largest. And they are insanely wasteful in their spending for what little they get done.

PA's bloated legislature

2nd largest legislature

Edit - My bad, thought you were referring to our state gov. My comment still stands though.