Perzel Pushing Empty Promises As Usual

The Maître d' now Major Domo emeritus of the House has his hair slicked back and a snappy little towel over his forearm and his shoes are a little bit more shiney than usual for the latest round of "screw the senior citizens" and the rest of Pennsylvania.

Tony Phyrillas: Empty promises on tax relief

What do Rep. John Perzel's "Older Pennsylvanian Property Tax Elimination Act" and Rep. Jay Moyer's "Senior Property Tax Freeze Bill" have in common?

Both measures are the latest attempts by elected officials to fool senior citizens (who are the most consistent voters) into giving Pennsylvania lawmakers another free pass on the property tax issue. The shell game has been going on for 30 years.

Lawmakers promise to tackle property tax reform in Harrisburg, but break
their promises to the voters as soon as they get into office. When voters start
threatening to kick out the career politicians, the legislators come up with
various schemes to address property taxes.

It's a vicious cycle that can only come to end with the passage of the School Property Tax Elimination Act of 2007 or the ouster of the majority of the current Legislature.

Unfortunately this means if Perzel is once again putting us (the little folk) at the crappyist seats in the place. How much of a secret tip should we have given him to get a decent seat? Just look at the good tables, the ones average citizens can't even hope for, and you'll see the lobbyists, gamblers, Harrisburg hotshots, Philadelphia pukes and Perzel's buddies. They get the biggest breaks and the best seats because they gave the biggest tips, but they didn't buy them, they just rented them. Perzel is smart that way.

TABOR Tames Taxes or What Harrisburg Hates

This has also been called Stopped Over Spending (SOS). Unions, Democrats and pork lovers HATE SOS or TABOR.

Tony Phyrillas: Who would oppose taxpayer rights?

What person in their right mind would oppose TABOR, the Taxpayers Bill of Rights?

How about people who benefit from keeping taxes high? Namely, unionized teachers and government workers.

The more taxes working people pay to government, the higher salaries and benefits can be paid to teachers and government workers.

On Wednesday, Oct. 10, the Coalition for Common Sense Priorities (that sounds so much nicer than "government moochers") is holding a free seminar at a union hall in Harrisburg to educate interested parties (teachers' unions and government workers) how to prevent TABOR from coming to Pennsylvania.

TABOR is a set of constitutional provisions Colorado voters adopted in 1992 to limit revenue growth for state and local governments in Colorado and to require that any tax increase in any state or local government (counties, cities, towns, school districts and special districts) must be approved by the voters of the affected government, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures Web site.

A friend from Nebraska said that every union, government group and other Democrats lied through their teeth to defeat this. Parents with small children and older people were warned in TV ads, in newspapers, by firemen, by police unions, by emergency squads and by politicians that they would be left out in the cold and probably die if SOS or TABOR was passed.

Lower taxes, cut government and throw the bums out. That's my TABOR as in a sabre we all should use on Harrisburg.