
Taxes
As controller plans to review business impact of Philly soda tax, mayor doubts impartiality
Philadelphia’s city controller plans to survey businesses to see just how they are being affected by the city’s sweetened-bev ...
5 years ago
It’s time to move forward on a Pa. tax bill
In states as different as Kansas and Illinois, Republican legislators have recognized reality and retreated from ...
5 years ago
‘Millionaire’s tax’ likely to pass, if Dems hold Legislature and win gov’s race
Political analysts believe it’s likely Democratic gubernatorial nominee Phil Murphy’s proposed tax increases will be approved ...
5 years ago
Saving public education depends on transcending intractable politics
The problem with public education is not the children but the adults. It is paramount we deconstruct underpinnings behind partisan gridlock.
6 years ago
Toomey’s health care tax cut costs Pennsylvania up to $4.8 billion per year
The health care bill in the U.S. Senate is very much like the one in the House, but in one respect it is far worse, thanks to Pennsylvani ...
6 years ago
‘I can sell’ non-referendum tax increase, Carney tells school leaders [video]
Calling a feared backlash by voters an “inconvenient consequence,” Gov. John Carney urged a small contingent of upstate schoo ...
6 years ago
Listen 0:56Protesters of Del. education cuts want bigger income tax increase
A small but determined group of educators, parents and advocates descended Tuesday to the steps of Legislative Hall protest Gov. John Car ...
6 years ago
Listen 0:59The small-business case for the Philly beverage tax
The soda industry has worked hard to create the perception that the ...
6 years ago
Soda tax benefits all, even its biggest critic
The Philadelphia Beverage Tax benefits Philadelphians. To say otherwise ignores the big picture. Criticism of the tax merely focuses on i ...
6 years ago
Attacking the NEA does not put ‘America first’
I thought about my grandmother last week, when Donald J. Trump unrolled a federal budget proposal that, to no on ...
6 years ago
Why federal support for the arts matters
Just before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, The Hill — a news organization that covers Congress — reported the incoming admi ...
6 years ago
Sugary-drink tax a small price to pay for improvements to Philadelphia parks and rec
I grew up in the ’70s when gang activity in Philly was at its peak. Getting to and from home and school was a daily obstacle course ...
6 years ago
On second try, Indian River tax increase passes
Delaware’s Indian River School District voters overwhelmingly approved a 19 percent property tax increase Thursday, just three mont ...
6 years ago
If Pa. lawmakers actually represented Pennsylvanians, tax policy would make more sense
When I was in graduate school in political science many years ago, I had a teacher — a moderate Republican — ...
6 years ago
More low-wage workers would escape poverty if tax credit included childless
Those of us focused on the well-being of Americans with low incomes have many concerns about the incoming Trump administration, but we se ...
6 years ago