Pittsburgh’s mayor wants to tax college students

By: tankertodd (Diary)  |  November 16th at 10:19 AM  | 

As an alum of one of the fine Pittsburgh universities I read with glee wunderkind Luke Ravenstahl’s desire to tax tuition in order to make the burden of city services “more fair.”  He has a point – when I lived in the city years ago I remember an amazing stat about something like a third of the property in the city limits having a tax-exempt | Read More »

Your two-minute Talking Point on Taxes

By: tankertodd (Diary)  |  August 28th at 08:12 AM  | 

The focus of the Democratic argument against McCain is that he’s for the Bush tax cuts. Let’s think about what tax cuts mean for the economy. We have a housing problem – too many houses are up for sale and too few people can afford to keep their home or buy the ones on the market. As a result, people in desperation to unload their | Read More »