Decentralize taxing from the counties, What idiots, PA has 3 levels of taxation, state, county and local, add in schools and you have 4. You literally pay 3 separate real estate taxes on your home. 1 check to the school, 1 check to the county and 1 to your local municipality, plus state income tax and local municipality income tax, same for a business. County level tax is perfect.ALL and I mean ALL my taxes are paid at the county bldg, car registration, licensing, etc. one stop shop for all dealing with the government. No dealing with anything in Tallahassee, no local garbage to deal with and the county, i.e., government workers are all of the nicest people you ever want to meet. Fast, polite and efficient. This works. The county that contains Pittsburgh has 32, that’s right 32 school districts in it, each with its own power and taxing structure and authority, own buses, etc. No county level schools in PA, at least in western PA. That means 32 different elected tax collector’s, thats right, the school districts each have an elected tax collector to collect their taxes for them. Try being an employer, You are required to withhold each employee local income tax which varies from locale to locale. We had about 40 employees and 12 different local income tax jurisdictions we had to withhold for on top of all the other taxes like anywhere else.
Cato, another useless academic like institution staffed with those who have never lived real life, living in theory, the losers in life’s lottery, ala, Dick Gephardt, just idiots
Talking about Florida now in my previous post.