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The Tax Suffel: You bought it. You broke it. You pay for it.

December 14, 2005 |

One thing is for certain: Pennsylvania government growth is not going to be cut any time soon. If were honest with ourselves, absent a serious economic problems and the threat of default — ala what we have a front row seat with — politicians will:

  • spend, spend, spend and exchange someone else’s money for the votes of an organized special interest
  • pass legislation favoring some special interest at the expense of others’ freedoms

So, with property tax relief on the front burner of the State House, watch out. My guess is that the strongest voting demographic — Pennsylvania’s elderly — will be catered to on this one. Jim Roddey on WQED last week posed just the kind of idea that will probably fly: Freeze elderly property tax levels if they make $35,000 or less. Other ideas have been to scrap the property tax all together, and slough it onto younger workers — perhaps via their income or through a lifetime’s worth of sales tax increases. Another idea posed is to consolidate property tax functions in Harrisburg.. Gee. Nothing like handing over the reigns of local control — and accountability — to the fools in Chocolate Town.

Note, too, that the biggest screams of relief are coming from Allegheny County residents. Outlying areas are not so concerned, although older residents their are also feeling the pinch of inflating housing prices (thank you The Fed, low rates, and flooding the money supply) in the midst of flat income. Elderly: Thank your hero, FDR and mostly democrat Congresses for 50 years in Washington D.C. for creating and then bankrupting what was already a Ponzi scheme from the start. Social Security can’t cover the property tax bill.

But there is more to this than just that. There is a local factor that is the bigger problem, for which the elderly in the county are largely responsible: THIS IS YOUR BILL FOR 75 YEARS OF VOTING STUPIDLY. Yes. I said it.

For seventy five years County Residents, and especially those in the City Limits have been lever voting — and Endorsing — politicians that not only bankrupted the region, but scared off much of the business and many residents to other regions by making the business and tax climate so burdensome that few are willing to stick around to suffer under it.

With that in mind, Fast Eddie Rendell is a big dependent of the elderly vote and kowtowing to heavy democrat special interests in Allegheny County. So expect him to do what any politician would do. He will push to remove the tax from those who caused the problem and push the tab for all that lousy voting into the rural areas of Pennsylvania. Roddey’s proposal is not much better. After all, those folks he wants to freeze taxes on will still vote for the same old pork and special interest benefit throwing politicians. You should not be able to vote to saddle others with the tab for your own pet ideas.

Fortunately — at least I hope — the legislatures from those areas will not allow this shifting of the bill to occur.

You bought it. You broke it. You pay for it.


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