Philadelphia City Council Makes Right Call: Rejects Soda Tax [Tax in the Can]

ATR ^ | 2011-06-17 | Jon Mahaffey

[92nina]

...In a move that critics contend will ultimately hurt the Philadelphia economy, council members opted to raise property taxes for a second year in a row. The Council approved a tax increase that would raise property taxes for one year by 3.85 percent. Even before this increase, Philadelphians already paid higher property tax rates than home and business owners in 211 of the 240 townships and boroughs in Montgomery, Delaware, Bucks and Chester counties. This is the third property tax increase in the city since 2008. Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer said "all of us knew we had to do something. Soda fell flat.” The “something” Councilwoman Brown mentions is a tax increase that will reduce Philadelphians’ disposable income by $100 million in the coming year...

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[92nina]

Whether one called it soda, or pop, the government wanted to tax it; and failing that, the government raised property taxes.

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[CIB-173RDABN]

I am not anti-government, understanding there is a need for the services a government provides. However, I am anti-BIG government, which seeks to solve every human problem (as if it could).

Big government is expensive both in money and the freedom it cost. We are reaching a point there is very little more they can take (since it is actually sucking the lifeblood out of our economy) and we have precocious little freedom left.

A government that seeks to protect you from the unfairness of life in the end creates the biggest unfairness of them all, it decides who will succeed and who will fail. It decides who lives and who dies. It decides where and how you live.

Compare to life in the 1950s we are no longer a free people.

[Born to Conserve]

Philadelphia didn’t learn about the Laffer Curve — raise the tax rate on real estate, lower the value of the real estate, lower the tax revenue.

Idiots.