The city has tried several times to challenge the non-profit status of UPMC, and they fail in court every time.

Unless it's a pun...

The IRS would be coming at me or you for that rounding error. Why should corporations be held to a lower standard and why are you arguing to keep said standard as low as possible? It just makes no sense at all. What are you afraid of happening? What are the possible downsides for the city taking that $36 million from upmc?

My wife works at a small nonprofit that gets a lot of funding from UPMC. She’s worried about this.

Check the rivers

Look up the smiley face killer and the Dakota James disappearance.

$36m is nice, and I'm all for proper enforcement of tax law. But that's an amount comparable to usual fluctuations from year to year in revenues. It doesn't hurt, but this was a big theme during the elections last year and seen as key to Pittsburgh's progressive agenda. Surely they had other aspirations than fighting for what is roughly a rounding error in the annual budget?

“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."

Matthew 6:5-6

Err

I completely understand thats the worst part, None of it's valid.

If this is how we treat the first person to ever win a Congressional Medal of Honor and the Nobel Peace Prize, shame on all of us.

Lizzo

Oh, I know. I'm trying to get corporate defender u/abbehuet to come to that realization on his own.

Considering the last mayor and county exec completely ignored this issue, I’d wager there’s a major backlog. The deadline to challenge tax assessments with the county is end of March.

Unless you live in a vacuum chamber it's not going to get any lower. AQI wasn't 0 before the industrial revolution, a background level of dirt, pollen, and other particulates is still going to exist regardless of pollution.

But apparently saying "hey I know that missing person, he bullied me in high school and cursed at me in traffic" is just fine?

Because that's the point of the american economic system.

Is $36 million not enough? How much would make it worth it? Why do we all have to pay our fair share and insanely profitable international corporations don't?

Who would turn down a 5% raise?

fuckin cringe response

> "It’s roughly $36 million per year."

Minus all the expenses for future lawsuits, of course.

More seriously, the city's current total revenues is about $706m per year (link). So this would only increase the city's revenue by 5% (assuming they succeed in all cases)? Did they end up finding fewer 'fake' tax-exempt properties than they thought? Or was that always the expectation?

You’re right. 35 to 40 is fantastic and can’t get any better.

> Air is not good today.

Air is excellent today.

What cities are the most attractive places to large employers in the United States and what are those cities' quality of life for the people who live in them? Asking because I'm a person not a large employer so that's what I care about.

The leaders do not care about crime.

Who is he?

I saw his mugshot on TV.

This might not be the right time, but what was the reason, if any, for the shooting? Was it just some random dude riding his bike in Bloomfield?