Property Tax Reform-plank-Robert Weinand

==Insights from Robert Weinand - Delaware County==
:Source: Public email list in June, 2006
Dear Governor Rendell,
A special session of the New Jersey Legislature has
been called for July to study school funding, public
employee benefits, government consolidation and
constitutional issues. They have promised legislative
proposals by September 30th.
Lets see...........Pennsylvania legislators have been
studying pretty much the same things for more than 30
years and have yet to come up with a solution. If I'm
not mistaken, Pennsylvania has had a Special Session
of the Legislature since last September and still
nothing on Property Tax Reform (not relief).
Maybe Pennsylvania should just sit back and see what
New Jersey comes up with. Then if the citizens of New
Jersey are satisfied, Pennsylvania should immediately
adopt New Jersey's plan. Then we could terminate all
present Pennsylvania Legislatures and send them home
to find other work. Just imagine the tremendous tax
savings Pennsylvania taxpayers would realize with the
current bandits gone. We could contribute a
reasonable amount to the New Jersey legislative
salaries for their help and just continue to adopt
their policies in the future.
Completely silly, however our present self serving,
inept bandit legislators do not have the backbone to
even come up with a plan to ask Pennsylvania taxpayers
to consider. So maybe the next best thing is to see
what New Jersey does - what's another few months
tacked onto 30 years going to harm?
One sentence in the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer
Editorial article on this subject tells it all,
"Property owners cannot continue to shoulder the
yearly increases needed by school districts". Are you
listening Harrisburg!?
Bob Weinand - Delaware County
==Links==
* Property Tax Reform
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