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Originally Posted by City Wide
BTW, Harrisburg regularly passes laws and makes regulations that only apply to Class A cities. Philly is the only Class A city in the state. (I'm not such of the actual terms, but I've known two supervisors in different City departments who have told me the same thing, several years apart)
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This is true, and FWIW there's nothing nefarious about it, it's just that there's a lot of times it makes sense to do something Philly-specific in a bill. Pittsburgh and Scranton are each in classes of their own. This article explains it a bit:
https://whyy.org/articles/explainer-...ies-clarified/ (Apparently, Pittsburgh and Scranton used to be in the same class, but Scranton wanted to differentiate themselves? I didn't know that part lol.
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Originally Posted by Jayfar
https://www.inquirer.com/business/ph...-20201122.html
The city’s hands are tied by Pennsylvania’s “uniformity clause,” which requires Philadelphia to tax all property owners equally, whether commercial or residential. If the clause could be waived, the city would have more options to change its tax structure, Philadelphia officials contend.
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This is also true, and is also why, among other things, we can't have a progressive income tax but instead have flat income taxes at both the state and city level.
Edit: Also, sorry to go off topic, and please no one turn this into a tax debate... lol...