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Originally Posted by cardeza
arent jobs at a 25 year high in the city? More is better, but the way the status quo is being described it sounds like we're talking about Detroit in the 80s. The initial comment was about cars and the inference that people wouldnt need them if we had lower taxes- something that sounds extremely theoretical and disconnected from how people outside of Center City and its adjacent neighborhoods live.
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So what?
And other cities are doing even better. It still has a lower share of regional jobs compared to its peer cities.
Further, Philadelphia has a lot of punitive taxes (specific to Philadelphia) that large global corporations can manage and/or avoid but smaller companies just starting out cannot, particularly in less sophisticated industries. I mean, Philadelphia has a "BUSINESS PRIVILEGE TAX". Give me a break. You have to pay a tax to deal with Jannie Blackwell? No thanks. It also has a gross receipts tax and a net profits tax. This has been discussed ad nauseum but I'm just telling you making reforms against those taxes and simplifying the code would do just as much to remove reliance on cars by moving jobs into the city as it would any law about parking minimums. And it sure as hell would remove resistance to them.
It should be clear that we should be growing all types of jobs, not just Center City office jobs. We want the entire city to flourish, not just the core.
You actually sound like quite the elitist.
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