Pithy bits around the blogs
- Ray Murphy at YPP reveals that the data underlying recent BPT-repeal cheerleading may not be reliable. Given the complexity of the issue to start with, we're owed better than further clouding...
- Ben Waxman at YPP applauds the Phila. local team's record on Iraq, from Brady and Fattah's votes against the war to City Council's shows of support for that stance and nonsupport of the Patriot Act.
- Friedman at AH directs our attention to a study showing that downtowns are on the upswing and that density is part of the attraction.
- Following that lead of bucking the conventional wisdom, Earl at Philly Future points us to research that takes issue with the received wisdom that newspaper readership is declining (!).
- Another PF poster notes that Knight-Ridder is freezing spending at its already abused local papers, while it figures out its own fate. This means union contracts, among other things, are on hold.
- Meanwhile Will Bunch of Attytood catches news that Cheney's new house has its own restricted airspace overhead (whether or not the Veep is at home).
posted by ACM at 3:50 PM
3 Comments:
YPP's complaints about the recent survey claiming that a majority of Philadelphian's support tax cuts are pretty silly. Does anybody really think that people in this City don't want tax reform? The issue has shifted from whether to how.
Well, I'm a more-than-average informed reader, and I'm not at all sure how I feel about this. I suspect that "the issue" only exists for the true believers and that most voters would like less taxes of all kinds but haven't really thought about it more than that for themselves (and thus, since the Believers are the only ones talking, there may be a slight but meaningless leaning in their direction). So, sorry, but no dismissing of the starting question here.
Fair enough. I could see how you could have a poll that was really biased against tax cuts, asking questions like "would you be in favor of eliminating the BPT if it meant that a recreation center in your neighborhood would be shut down", most people would say know. It just seems hard to argue that the tax cuts have been bad for the City and that creating a more competitive environment for business and job creation is the wrong direction to go in.
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