The Delaware County Daily Times has joined the crusade to reform Pennsylvania’s oppressive property tax system which basically strips shelter from the widows and the out-of-luck so gym teachers and assistant-to-assistant school administrators can get six-figure-plus in annual compensation.
No kudos though. An editorial in today’s, Aug. 5, edition praised SB 1400, which would give school districts the power to add a sales or income tax to offset — not eliminate — the property tax.
In other words, it would give school districts just more feathers to pluck.
This is a significant difference from Rep. Jim Cox’s HB 1776, that died in committe, which would have prohibited school districts from using a property tax.
In other words, SB 1400 is a very bad idea.
The elimination of the property tax for homes is appropriate goal for those who believe in compassion and decency, but more effective ways of providing the desperately needed relief would be banning teacher strikes and ending prevailing wage for public works.
Will our Republican-led state do those things?
Not as long as men like Billy Adolph don’t have their minds right.