The state Senate last night approved a property-tax cutting bill that closely resembled one it passed in December and was later rejected in the House of Representatives.
The passage of such a similar bill underscored the differences between the Senate and the House, where the prospects of the legislation are uncertain. More than four months after Gov. Ed Rendell called a special legislative session to address rising property taxes, the Legislature remains in a stalemate over how, and how much, to reduce the tax that pays many public school costs.
The bill, which passed 39-10, would rely on gambling revenue and local income tax increases to shoulder a larger burden of school funding, thereby reducing property taxes. It also would double a property-tax and rent rebate program for the low-income elderly to increase eligibility from 331,000 to 612,600.
Post-Gazette
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So there's no real tax-relief. Isn't there any sense of the benefit of the tax-effect. Send all these idjits to economics 101.
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