Task force member Robert Inman, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, responded that, in part, the task force focused primarily on tax-policy changes that were directly connected to job growth. Epps also noted the task force's limited resources and mid-October deadline to submit the report to the mayor.
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20091023_Report__City_should_shift_tax_burden_to_property_owners.html Penn and Paul Levy wanted to start with a BID in West Philly. Hell, why stop there! They tried to have their servant, Mayor Nuttball, raise property taxes on the poor during the bankers robbery. Revenue enhancement could come by rolling back the massive tax cuts for the large multi-national corporations not based in Phila. Releasing all political prisoners and a sensible drug policy would greatly reduce the major waste and human destruction by the city. Taxing "non-profits" like the plutocracy pushing censorship driven universities, such as Penn, would be another alternative. But Penn wants to destroy the city's poor by shifting all tax burden to them with the most regressive taxes. Here is a proposed solution to the massive subsidy for the large multi-nationals not based in Philadelphia: "Council members Maria Quiñones Sánchez and Bill Green, for instance, chafed when told the report, and its authors, did not address Sánchez's proposal to preserve the gross-receipts tax by allowing businesses to reduce their burden by instead crediting that tax against what they pay in net-income taxes." Glenn "Tony, cut the crap." ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
