New Hershey Plant in Derry Township (Philadelphia, Erie: appointed, maintenance, tax)

[Wells5]

Originally Posted by trackstar13

This is a great point and I saw that Arizona is going to start making chips for Apple and it would be amazing to see something similar in Pennsylvania in the next few years.

The first factory to mass produce transistors in the world was located at the Bell Labs Allentown complex. That complex once employed 20,000 workers, engineers and scientists. There is nothing left of the Allentown Bell Labs.


https://www.interestingpennsylvania....own-works.html


The semiconductor division of RCA was once located in Mountaintop near Wilkes-Barre. They employed thousands. RCA was bought out by GE. Another company occupies the plant today- "ON Semiconductor." To my knowledge, that is the only advanced semiconductor manufacturing operation in PA.

[Tweb66]

Bell Labs never employed 20,000 people in Allentown, or even remotely close to that number. But yeah, the jobs left because of rap music or something, right?



The Lehigh Valley's economy is probably about as strong as it has ever been. It is just very different. But in typical CD fashion, a thread about a new factory has been saddled with hatred and negativity. Well done...

[Tweb66]

https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehig...8353a2d07.html


This is potentially massively good news with heavy manufacturing returning to Allentown. So Wells5, inquiring minds want to know, who deserves the credit? The blacks or the Jews?

[ElijahAstin]

Originally Posted by Tweb66

https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehig...8353a2d07.html


This is potentially massively good news with heavy manufacturing returning to Allentown. So Wells5, inquiring minds want to know, who deserves the credit? The blacks or the Jews?

Note that this heavy industry is not setting up shop in the (((West End))) or (((Parkland School District))).

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by elijahastin

note that this heavy industry is not setting up shop in the (((west end))) or (((parkland school district))).

Damn! Why won't the BBS software let someone just insert three LOL emojis?

[cpomp]

Originally Posted by Wells5

The older folks remember how it was when Erie was an industrial powerhouse. The younger people who undergo a "new world order" conditioning in schools modulated by endless rap "music" and are ecstatic about the newly discovered "genders" and chocolate bar manufacturing have difficulty focusing on the "tried and true," and why the "old ways" were better.

I understand some level of rustbelt heyday nostalgia, but what a sad bitter person...

At least the democratic cesspool of Philadelphia and it's surrounding elitist suburban counties are still economic powerhouses.

[BPP1999]

Originally Posted by cpomp

I understand some level of rustbelt heyday nostalgia, but what a sad bitter person...

At least the democratic cesspool of Philadelphia and it's surrounding elitist suburban counties are still economic powerhouses.

That’s because we steal elections and take advantage of the rural counties, don’t you know.

[toobusytoday]

Originally Posted by ElijahAstin

Note that this heavy industry is not setting up shop in the (((West End))) or (((Parkland School District))).

Note that it's using an old manufacturing site that had been sitting vacant. Kinda hard to move that. I met the owner of this place a couple of nights ago. https://www.mcall.com/business/mc-bi...7oi-story.html Another old plant, this time A-Treat, will be used instead of just sitting there! If there is any School District in the Lehigh Valley that needs the influx of tax dollars from businesses, it's Allentown, NOT Parkland.

[Craziaskowboi]

Originally Posted by BPP1999

That’s because we steal elections and take advantage of the rural counties, don’t you know.

This seems like a good opportunity to point out that, while land doesn't vote, GDP doesn't vote either.

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by Craziaskowboi

This seems like a good opportunity to point out that, while land doesn't vote, GDP doesn't vote either.

That's true, but:

Generally speaking, you can't produce a GDP that big without lots of people.

And people do vote.

What I find laughable are all the rural folk who believe they are actually producing revenue for the state that gets sucked up by Philadelphia.

Many of those people live in counties that are also net recipients of state largesse.

Tom Ferrick wrote this article for the Pennsylvania Capital-Star last year that examined which counties were net "takers" of state money and which net "makers" of money for the state.

The table in the article must get updated with fresh data regularly, for when I referred to it in threads here last year, Philadelphia was the biggest net recipient of state revenue on a per capita basis.

It's traded places with Forest County in the northwest part of the state, which was #2 last year.

Of the top 10 net recipient counties, Philadelphia is the only one containing a sizable city. Two (Clarion and Lawrence) are micropolitan statistical areas in the Pittsburgh CSA, and the other seven are rural, nonmetropolitan counties.

And as Ferrick notes, the disparity for Philadelphia is due largely to formula-driven grants to its school district (which has more students enrolled in it than in the 37 districts in Montgomery and Delaware counties) and to support its disproportionately poor population. But another driver is SEPTA, the mass transit agency that carries two of every three public transit riders in the state. It serves five counties, but the state money it gets is charged only to the one in which it is headquartered.

But maybe more to the point, were Philadelphia and its collar counties together to separate and form their own state, it would be able to balance its budget and fund all of its services out of the wealth generated there. The other 62 counties wouldn't.

And nearly one-third of the state's population lives in those five counties. That's a sizable chunk of the electorate, and it now votes much the same way in state elections (that used to not be the case).