Teachers get paid garbage in this state and have to put up with the worst people constantly yelling at them.

This is the second post in three days about how a city in Pennsylvania can find prosperity by cutting taxes. Makes you think.

The abuse and lack of mental health care is what makes public schools shitty, not social media lol

I can believe the amount of mouth breather conservative haters here, but it's still disappointing. Good on you OP

Do you think teaching is the only seasonal job? Construction, landscaping, pool stores, etc just don't exist to you??

It's not that they're charging a ton in an attempt to price gouge. It's really expensive to provide this care and difficult to retain trained staff

Thanks for the hypocritical (I'm really shocked, I promise) advice, oh wise one! I'll do my best! :)

You don’t have to, but just a general tip if you travel: some bars in other states won’t serve you with a vertical ID, even if it is valid. I went to college in DC and had this problem in Maryland a lot, so I ended up just going and getting a horizontal one for convenience.

You want me to pay so you don't have to drive around potholes?

Enjoy perpetual disappointment at the world's unwillingness to follow your desires.

Now you’re either doubling down on disingenuousness or just aren’t familiar with what a “fact” actually is. If I pay $100 a month for house insurance for a year and at the end of that year my house burns down and I’m given $250,000 to rebuild, that doesn’t mean I was never an “insurance payer”. If I donate $10 to my local food bank every few months, then lose my job for a year and get $100s of dollars in food support from the pantry, that doesn’t mean I’m not a donor.

Lol. "Fuck outta here". you stole the words right outta muh mouth.

Did you miss the "one perk" part? It's not like your ass is paying out of pocket to provide supplies to other people's kids

Erie (city) has a problem wherein much of its property is owned by non-profit entities that don't pay property taxes. I don't imagine they'd start under this program.

Most definitely not lol

You're getting there, good job! No anti-choice anything, thanks

Wow those things written by white men didn’t protect the rights of women so I guess they shouldn’t have rights then. Fuck outta here.

I would hardly put universal daycare in the same category as universal healthcare, which is something that I do support.

Foundational freedoms? I don't see them in the bill of rights or the Magna Carta.

yes you should. we shouldn't be subsidizing corporate profits

the horror of having to work an all year like the rest of us

Mkay got it. So no pro life dog catchers.

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>put on an addition, your taxes go up.

In much of PA, that is not how assessment law works.

There are 2 laws applicable to assessments: the General County Assessment Law at 72 P.S. Sect 5020 and the Consolidated County Assessment Law at 53 Pa. C.S. Sect 8801. The GCA applies only to Philadelphia and Allegheny Counties. All properties in a county must be uniformly assessed regardless of its use as residential or commercial. Beyond that, it gets a bit complicated.

An active business will be taxed more than a vacant building because of the 3-prong approach used in some counties, but there is no allowance for "taxing the land more and the building less." Also, in most counties, putting on an addition will not automatically - if at all - result in your property tax going up. The amount of the assessment can be appealed; indeed, a number of businesses appeal on an annual basis.

The last time I took a deep dive on the assessment issue, a majority of PA counties had not conducted a county wide reassessment for over 20 years. They were still issuing property tax bills based on FY 2000, or earlier! - market values.

Then no, you shouldn't have to pay.