Scranton is a classic example of what happens under Democrat control.
City withholding taxes are at 3.4% versus adjacent cities collecting 1%. The Real Estate transfer tax is currently 4.3% versus the 2% in surrounding communities. The city has been studying an additional “commuter tax”.
This is a city where the median income for a household is $28,800.00.
Scranton is the answer to whether a city can tax it’s way to prosperity.
If it wasn’t for the University of Scranton, the city wouldn’t exist.
Well, Doherty had proposed a 78% (!!!) property tax increase, and council rejected it out of hand. I live in Scranton, and as people have said, it’s been a one-party town for decades. A couple Dems temporarily switched for political reasons. But right now, our three county commissioners are all Democrats; one ran as a Republican, and b/c he is Irish, enough Republicans were fool enough to nominate him.
How does a small city get hundreds of millions of dollars in debt without rampant corruption? It doesn’t. Bob