10% Drink Tax or Property Tax Increase: Which Would You Choose? (Pittsburgh: sale, house)

[lifepgh2op]

It looks like the residents of Allegheny County will get to decide whether they want to continue paying a 10% tax on poured alcoholic drinks or have property taxes raised even higher.

Allegheny County Voters Can Choose Drink Or Property Tax - Food News Story - WTAE Pittsburgh

Which will you choose and why?

[dugdogmaster]

Rakaculous = Ridiculous Whatever happened to this gambling law being enacted to alleviate property taxes?

[wordzgirl]

I choose a different state to get away from the insane taxes - wait, I already did that.

[nynjmapa]

Increasing property taxes or passing the 10% drink tax is unfair to either people who own property or people who drink in Allegheny County.

How about a 10% tax increase on all Primantis sandwiches? 10% tax increase on Steelers' tickets? 10% increase on admission to museums? Where does the selectivity end?

If you want the tax burden fairly distributed, pass a general tax increase on all goods or services sold within Allegheny County. This way, neither property owners nor people who consume are unfairly singled out with handling the public transportation deficit.

[dugdogmaster]

Originally Posted by nynjmapa

Increasing property taxes or passing the 10% drink tax is unfair to either people who own property or people who drink in Allegheny County.

How about a 10% tax increase on all Primantis sandwiches? 10% tax increase on Steelers' tickets? 10% increase on admission to museums? Where does the selectivity end?

If you want the tax burden fairly distributed, pass a general tax increase on all goods or services sold within Allegheny County. This way, neither property owners nor people who consume are unfairly singled out with handling the public transportation deficit.

Anybody want to e-mail this to Dan Onorato?

[Q-tip motha]

Originally Posted by lifepgh2op

It looks like the residents of Allegheny County will get to decide whether they want to continue paying a 10% tax on poured alcoholic drinks or have property taxes raised even higher.

Allegheny County Voters Can Choose Drink Or Property Tax - Food News Story - WTAE Pittsburgh

Which will you choose and why?

The drink tax is only on poured drinks right? Since when was alcohol a necessity (I know the winter's up here are a little cold but yeesh)? As I understand it the tax is to help bail out the PAT. People seem to be making a proverbial mountain out of a mole hill. I'm in my 20s, a regular drinker/visitor to the south side on the weekends, and I don't even see what everyone is so upset about.


If you want to talk about alternative means of funding, that's a whole different debate. From a politician's view point which is more likely to upset the voters: Raising property taxes for all, or taxing the sale of an item purchased by some?

[bbrian12]

a 10% reduction in all the county politicians salary
is a good solution

my question is why should all our property tax go up or more tax on drinks to fund port authority.

i dont ride the bus therefore i should not pay for the bus
i dont see a 10% " put gas in or tires on brian's car tax " now is there?

any way i guess a drink tax is better than property tax
cause i can allways quit drinking
im not about to sell my house

[MissShona]

Neither. They need to learn how to manage a budget a reduce wasteful spending. Also be more pro-active in pursuing delinquent taxes.

They said it was only for poured drinks...but this is not true. Just another example of them telling us whatever they want to tell us.

[BrianTH]

As an aside, the reason general subsidies for public transit make sense is that the riders are not the only beneficiaries of public transit. Public transit also benefits employers and retailers, reduces congestion on highways, reduces competition for parking spots and gasoline, and so on.

Anyway, like many I would prefer a different option entirely (a progressive income tax). But between these two options, I am fine with the drink tax.

[bbrian12]

it is funny how the sneaky politicians word the vote
drink tax or property tax to fund pat bus

how bout this
should we fund port authoruty with more tax dollars
yes or no

or
should we trim the fat off port authority
yes or no

or
privitize port authority
yes or no