EVANS: Wage Tax
I do believe that in order to attract businesses and to achieve job growth, we must have a competitive tax structure. For this reason, I supported Governor Ed Rendell’s gaming legislation which would provide revenues to cut the wage tax in Philadelphia. I will also continue to support its reduction and to look at studies, including those from the Tax Reform Commission, to seek ways to make our tax structure fair and balanced for all.
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All of the candidates are for the wage tax cuts. Let's hope they follow through.
The state and city revenues we will see in the future from gambling are overstated and the social costs understated. Casinos are one of those classic development fads, like aquariums. If everyone has one, all you get is locals spending dollars being that aren’t spent elsewhere such as neighborhood small businesses. Wilson Goode touted the Home Depot on Delaware Avenue for adding jobs. He failed to count the losses at neighborhood hardware stores and lumber yards and the building-supply stores along Washington Street (which had better prices).
Cutting the wage tax means that more people will commute from the city to the suburbs to work. This is good in that the city gains residents. However, the region and the environment (think global warming) would be better if the jobs came here as well.
with casinios in,,,who is philadelphi that has paid the taxes here will be leaving...property values will go down...read th research those mayoral candicdiates who are for the casinios...most people who are in queen village , society hill,bella vista, etc will move and so far being able to handle the taxes but if the casinios come in at those 2 lociations , most will move incluing myself...traffic is bad now and 28,000 more cars are to come in and we cannot handle it..luckily we are fighting but if by s small chance we lose...philly lose...Atlantc City was never the same when the casinos came in...philly will die as we know it..the casinios need to be near the stadiem or further with no impact on the historicial tourism of our city...we need to do some work here and to put on extreme stress,,,the city will never be thrivng again...I know who I am not voting for in the mayorial election...wow what studipty..
You need to drive around the city and see how fruscating it is to go about and with more cars ,,,yikes
not enough police and sevices to handle all this..need to work on union not having so much power to effect our business at the convenion center..we lost so much business there...so much work so little time
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