I’d call someone at the court house. My wife was excused when our two kids were 3 and 1, however I was traveling for work.

Isn't it usually the right wingers complaining about the intolerant left and their cancel culture?

Regardless, I don't understand why anyone would be upset with the sign. We need to stop letting the inmates run the asylum

Here is a really good history on the Philly's wage tax - https://economyleague.org/uploads/files/783716581668902685-the-sterling-act-a-brief-history.pdf

The city has used wage taxes vs property taxes as a way of funding their government. Its not an elephant party thing, since they haven't been in charge in Philly for almost a century. So both parties are OK with regressive taxes, as long as they get their money. What is worse about the city wage tax is dividends and interest income are excluded. So you could be a billionaire, live in the city and pay $0 in wage taxes if you aren't collecting a salary. However, if you are a business owner you are taxed far more if than if your business was just outside the city. And if you are too poor to own a car, and need to buy necessities to live, those are going to cost more than your neighbors in Montco or Bucks, since you can't drive across county lines.

If you live in the city or work in the city you need to pay the tax. So if you live outside the city and are now a remote employee you do not need to pay the tax.

I live in the city and work outside the city, so I pay the tax regardless if I am remote or in the office.

NYC is in a legal battle with NJ/Conn over this issue as its tax base took a serious hit with remote work.

The corruption in this city is second to nowhere, and its been run by one party for 70 years. So those in charge have nobody to blame but themselves. I mean the unions put a guy in city council and kept him on the union's payroll, then cry foul when the FBI charges the union leader and councilmember with corruption.

As far as limits on tax, we have to pay an additional 2% sales tax, a soda tax and a wage tax. The sales tax exemption was approved by the state. The working poor and middle class folks are paying these taxes, especially in today's remote working environment. And yet we still can't buy books for kids in schools.

I think 20-25% of Philly's budget goes towards pension cost. That kind of makes it hard to set money aside for capital improvements.

And yet Philadelphia, one of the poorer counties in the state, has the highest income tax and sales tax. There is zero incentive for a high income earning family to live here, unless they make their money on non-waged income (i.e., interest and dividends). Add in the "soda tax" and the poor and low income families are taxed thru the roof.

Well finding an additional $5B in the state budget will be a challenge for the governor and state legislature. The AG doesn't have the same concern.

IF he is convicted this POS should be publicly hung…

I believe you can get your vehicle inspected 3 months before expiration. I used to get my car with Feb expiration stickers inspected this week since I was always off work, and my work schedule in Feb was usually very hectic.

I also bought my wife a car where the inspection and tag renewal were off by 3 months and my mechanic moved my inspection sticker out a month for 3 years until they were aligned.

I don’t see how a police officer could do anything to you should you get pulled over since they would have no way of knowing your vehicle inspection stickers were now on a different expiration month.

I don't care which side does it, I hate it. These bills should stand on their own.

"Mr. Toomey declined an interview request through his staff, but a top Republican aide on the Banking Committee said the veteran lawmaker objected to the legislation being tucked into the National Defense Authorization Act — a must-pass bill — without any hearings."

I'm never a fan of when they tuck shit like this in bills that have to be passed, so I find myself in the odd position of agreeing with Toomey on this one (assuming what is quoted from the article is true).

I disagree. This is the same city council that passed a bill that prevents cops from pulling cars over for minor infractions such as expired tags because in their view it gave cops probable cause to harass black folks.

There is an exception for work… but we don’t enforce curfew anyway and there is no fine or punishment. Just politicians being political (i.e., not solving a damn thing)

Wouldn’t there need to be some sort of punishment for the kids and their parents for this to matter? I mean taking the kid to an after hours center to play Xbox while waiting for their parents to come get them isn’t really an incentive to not roam the streets at night….

Curfew has been ignored for decades. Also there is no punishment, so kids/parents aren’t going to care one bit…

What a joke… there are numerous studies that this does nothing to reduce juvenile crime nor crimes against juveniles. The police have much bigger problems to worry about…

Definitely over anyone from city council