Mayoral Race

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@Blackbelt

Actually not at all. but thanks for the insult. I bought my first house while you were still in your old mans balls, so i think i know a little bit about houses and property taxes. I will repeat my point, since it went right over your head.
It took no political will for Onorato to raise taxes on a select group of businesses(the hospitality industry), rather than a larger group of people(the homeowners of Allegheny county). The homeowners of the county are a large enough number to vote his ass out, while the hospitality industry is a much smaller number. So therefore, he took the chicken shit way out. The drink tax(along with the rental car tax and a few others), are being paid by by people who do not live in Allegheny county(along with plenty who do live in AC). Considering that State tax revenues are already subsidizing peoples bus rides in AC, i resent having to once again help pay for someone elses bus ride. Since it is the Port authority of ALLEGHENY COUNTY, lets let the citizens of ALLEGHENY COUNTY pay for it. If Danny boy had raised property taxes to subsidize PAT, there would have been enough of an outcry that maybe, just maybe, their might have been some MEANINGFUL cost cutting in that huge black hole. But no, nothing has changed.
Do i think property taxes are too high? Hell yes, one of the reasons i moved out of AC was because of that. But passing stupid taxes like that drink tax doesn’t solve the problem, it only serves to perpetuate it.

You are a socialist, i do not expect you to understand.

Your right…what was i thinking. He definitely took the easy way out (lord knows not the sensible way out) when he decided he better not raise property taxes and instead impose more luxury taxes. :bowdown: