Mayor Nutter deserves credit for inviting the media to accompany him as he ventured into the Mayfair Diner the morning the very day after he proposed two big new tax increases. That was brave. But in this case it may well have backfired. With Fox 29 cameras rolling, Nutter was unlucky enough to encounter the wife of a soda factory worker, and she had no problem telling him that his proposed two-ounce tax on sugary drinks put her husband's job at risk.
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Moments later, Nutter was interviewed live by the Fox anchors.
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Nutter seems to think that the city is composed of people with a sixth grade education who don't get that high taxes means less jobs.— CleanupPhilly- You don't have have a degree in economics to know that higher taxes on economic activity equals fewer jobs. People know it. Why doesn't Nutter assure his reelection and collect the $500 million in overdue property taxes and the $1 billion in forfeit bail? Who is he trying he trying to protect by refusing to address that the city has a broken collection mechanism that hiking economic taxes can't solve?— CleanupPhilly
- Cleanup, do you have any estimates on how much of the $500 million in property tax and $1 billion in bail is realistically collectible? Don't some of those figures date back to the 1960's?— Eloise at the Plaza
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