But PA people don’t know that.
Excellent article.
The author hits on many points I have been hammering away at for years. And I’m glad people are finally starting to attack “Fast” Eddy, the epitome of the scumbag politician.
From the article:
“Many seniors, who have paid off their houses decades ago, are forced to sell because they cannot afford the skyrocketing property taxes.”
This is a disgrace that any “empathetic” society should be ashamed of. And this is not happening just in Philadelphia. It is happening in any town where the elderly have lived for decades, building their town into an attractive place to live.
And this disgusting tactic of raising everyone’s property taxes to pay for new spending is part of the reason why the elderly cannot afford medical care and medicine.
What I have proposed for years is to eliminate property taxes on the primary residence of those who are retired. As long as yow owe property tax, you never fully own the land and your home, even after paying for it for 30 years, rather you rent it from the government.
Eliminating the property tax as I stated above not only gives people true ownership of their property, it enables them to pay for their own medical costs, a fiscal change that makes perfect sense and that is necessary.
Of course, none of this has a chance when the government is run by power-hungry Statists who pay the entitlement class for their votes and who collude with the unions to control business.
I could have saved the state $3 million a year. A long term project that I was in charge of could have been done in house for $1 million a year, but Rendell chose to give a no bid contract to one of his big campaign doners to the tune of $4 million a year.
Democrats get in, taxes go up. Always. The people know this and vote Dem anyway. Go figure.
Hopefully, Tom Corbett can fix it.
Rendell was a notorious crooked lawyer before he became a notorious crooked governor.
We get what we deserve. They elected him. Just like Michigan; when they reelected Jenny Granholm, I said: “They’ll deserve what they get. Never tho’t it would be this bad however.
Thank you Rendell Republicans ping
The tolling issues I have objections with the Feds on in terms of states rights. If Pa can’t charge tolls, then they should tell the FED’s they can pay for all of I80’s maintenance and Pa will just concentrate on the state feeder roads from now on.
I 80 is the main east west road that cuts across towards NYC, Jersey, and the North East and is heavily pounded by trucks and heavy car traffic. Why Md, Jersey and points North can Charge tolls on I95 and Pa. can’t charge tolls on I 80 is a sore subject that ought to be revisted on constitutional grounds...Either all states can charge tolls or all states can’t!
Fast Eddie is so popular that in certain areas of Philadelphia, he got 102% of the vote! The guy has talent! In fact, if he felt like it, he could have made Lassie or Flipper the Governor, thrown the Commonwealth's Electoral votes to Jack the Ripper. This guy really runs the state his way!
Steal a hot stove? No problem. How you want them eggs? How can you complain about a guy like that?
Hey, on the good side, he’s making New Jersey look good by comparison! Way to go, Fast Eddie!
You can list the current rat Governors who HAVEN’T effed-up their states on one hand.