According to Steve Bloom, vice president of the Commonwealth Foundation, a right-wing “think tank” (really, think tank?), it’s because of the growth of state government which drives up taxes.
By the way, the five cities with the greatest increase in tech jobs are L.A., San Jose, San Francisco, Seattle, and Boston. Those are not exactly low-tax locales.
Mr. Bloom’s answer, in an op ed piece in the Morning Call today, is a constitutional amendment limiting government spending increases to the rate of inflation plus population growth. Yeah, that will keep them in Scranton and Erie.
I don’t understand why Republicans need an amendment to rein in spending. After all, they control both houses of the state legislature. Are they so prone to temptation that they can’t keep themselves in check? This is another one of those myths to which Republicans are so prone.
Maybe we could get Mexico to pay the taxes.
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