From the story: A raucous crowd of protesters spilled from the main staircase and filled the Capitol rotunda yesterday, with hundreds of mostly older Pennsylvanians chanting for lawmakers to "save our homes, save our homes!"
The rally was in support of House Bill 1275, a measure by state Rep. Sam Rohrer, R-Berks, to eliminate school property taxes.
Mr. Rohrer would expand the base of the state sales tax by taxing previously exempt services, while raising the personal income tax rate, now at 3.07 percent, to 3.92 percent. Read more…
An astute blogger noticed that there is mass transit funding buried 151 pages into the bill. It will earmark 1.01%, or up to $75 million of the revenue generated by this legislation into mass transit. Evidently, part of Act 44 for mass transit funding was incorporated into this bill. Can’t we have a “clean” bill without additional mass transit funding?
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