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Like Paul Levy, Geeting hasn’t noticed that Center City has crossed the Schuylkill. This is not an issue and raising it can only lead to bad results.
It’s bad for Philly’s economy that Center City has to be so small. They allotted the stingiest tiniest area for the good high-rise zoning, and now there’s a tight corset of historic districts and single-family rowhouse zoning all around it
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Six weeks after the deadline, Senate Rs pass a budget that flat-funds education, Medicaid and everything else. This is a joke not a serious #PABudget. pennpolicy.org/research_publ…
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Senate Republicans returning to their fantasy of 8 years ago about "surpluses" in special funds that should be transferred to teh general fund.marcstier.com/blog2/?p=7907 #pabudget
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Taxing the rich would CERTAINLY help. Far more than half our debt is due to the Reagan, Bush II, and Trump tax cuts. Spending has not changed much except temporarily during recessions. Tax revenue has shrunk.
If you made $5M every day since the birth of Jesus, you would have the same amount of money as the US federal debt. So, yes, the US needs to endure some pain now or the country will fall into ruin. Taxing the rich more won’t help.
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US importers pay the tariff no foreign exporters. If you don’t know the basic, you shouldn’t be talking about the policy.
What he is talking about, I would assume, is the tariff plan.
We have a debt that is only getting larger and will collapse America if we continue down the path we are on.
The tarrif plan will put a fee on goods imported here from other countries. The other countries have a choice on how they want to pay that fee. They will more than likely eat some of the cost themselves and then put some on the American consumer by raising the price of their goods. They don't want to raise it too high or Amerricans won't buy their goods, and trust me, the rest of the world wants Americans as consumers of their products.
We love to consume and are practically a cash cow.
Once prices settle to their new norm, American manufacturing companies are gonna have an opening to swoop in and produce goods we would ordinarily get overseas, right here in America, at a cheaper cost.
The end goal is more 'Made in the USA' goods, thus more manufacturing jobs, and a group effort to tackle this debt that is actually crippling America.
If you don't like that plan, do you have a better one? I'm sure we are all ears.
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Wants to join a go fund me to buy a set of books for @NateSilver538 about how the health and / or mental capacity of American presidents was hidden during the Wilson, Kennedy, Reagan and Trump administrations. It's common in democratic countries. PS Churchill.
This isn't normal or acceptable for an American president. It sounds like a story from an authoritarian country. cnn.com/2024/07/11/politics/…
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What remains absolutely fucking enraging is that by bailing out banks and letting millions of people lose their homes, the Obama administration set the stage for Trump in 2016.
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Republicans are typically good on intellectual disability issues. They have some affinity for people with intellectual disabilities. Good for them.
Intellectual disability and nursing homes were two areas were Pittman added there could be increased spending, particularly the latter. spotlightpa.org/news/2024/06…
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Census numbers ARE self-reported numbers from surveys. The numbers the BEFC uses are based on hard count of take-up rates for safety net programs, etc.
Pittman got into some negotiation details, namely that the issue on education isn't just the amount but how to divvy up those dollars between districts. Pittman indicated he wanted "census" numbers, not self reported surveys, to dictate district's allocations.
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If Senator Reagan's bill to put an armed cop in every school district passes, are we going to call those cops Mikeys? #pabudget #historytest
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If I ever leave this city that I love it will be because I'm scared to drive on our roads with all you madmen.
What the decline in traffic enforcement by police looks like in Philly, courtesy of @dylancpurcell
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The American Rescue Plan’s (ARP) Child Care Stabilization program delivered historic support to over 225,000 child care programs serving as many as 10 million children across the country, helping keep their doors open for millions of working families who rely on them.
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Who said Trump called US soldiers who died in war were losers and suckers? General John F. Kelly, his chief of staff.
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