A top Republican state lawmaker is giving a withering assessment of a key element of Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget proposal, suggesting April 17 that the Democrat’s tax incentive to attract more people into Pennsylvania’s ranks of police officers, nurses and teachers will not pass the GOP-controlled Senate.

Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman, R-Indiana, called Shapiro’s proposed tax break a “Band-Aid approach” to a much deeper problem of a thin workforce affecting employers across the spectrum, not just schools, hospitals and police departments.

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