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Yeah, I don't know the details, but I'm skeptical. I think the "lower property taxes" nonsense was to be implemented through some kind of property tax rebates...which would probably go only to welfare recipients or some other kind of means tested bullshit.
ETA - just read this:
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Thought I heard that the sales tax hike would be offset by lower property taxes but I haven't seen details. Anyone know more?
Yeah, I don't know the details, but I'm skeptical. I think the "lower property taxes" nonsense was to be implemented through some kind of property tax rebates...which would probably go only to welfare recipients or some other kind of means tested bullshit.
ETA - just read this:
The Pennsylvania Senate's majority leader said Tuesday that he is planning a vote early next week on legislation to end the collection of school property taxes and replace it with billions of dollars in higher state taxes on income and sales, including repealing of a wide range of exemptions on transactions.
Under the bill introduced by Sen. David Argall, R-Schuylkill, the personal income tax rate would rise from 3.07 percent to 4.34 percent while more types of food, clothing and shoes would be exposed to a new, higher tax on sales -- 7 percent, up from 6 percent.
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So HB/SB76 is now back on the table after all these years?
I gave up on them when the Unions and other groups lost their collective minds when they found out their services would be taxed, for example, lawyers services... they fucking lost their minds.
Same thing applied with local teachers and the unions. Stripping them all of the power to tax and take homes was like throwing fuel in the fire. Giving control of all the money (school funding) to Harrisburg (More of that stripping local power) also caused politicians on both sides to get a little queasy at the though of losing local control of the purse strings and money and once again, taking homes and selling them.
The IFO (Independent Fiscal Office) ran the numbers and the increase in sale tax, the addition of more items that can be taxed, and the small increase in state income tax more than funded all of the states schools. Nobody should ever lose their home because they cannot pay school taxes.