Not to Ward, though, a policy expert who’d led Wolf’s budget office in 2015.
The fact that horse racing receives this much public assistance in a single state was news to many outside the sport. They’d be paid for, Wolf said, “by repurposing existing tax dollars that are right now flowing into the Horse Racing Development Fund.” Halfway through, she sat up as Wolf proposed a “historic” $200 million investment in tuition for 25,000 students at Pennsylvania’s state universities.
In February of last year, Sharon Ward listened intently as her former boss, Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Tom Wolf, outlined his spending priorities in his 2020 budget address. Neither are billions in public subsidies.
