Results tagged “taxes”

• Citizens in Philadelphia protest proposed state tax on the arts. We're sad this can't end in a teabag joke.
• Girard Ave. ramp off 95-N will be closed starting Monday. We were just lamenting that driving on 95 wasn't enough of a fustercluck already.
• Two men, with two critical injuries, drive for help. We dub thee, sirs, badass.

Your faithful Phillyist Proofreader caught this Florida-plated Hyundai on Germantown Avenue, just north of Girard, in that neighborhood nostalgically and perhaps misleadingly called "Olde Kensington."

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Part of the fallout in the switch from a feudal, agrarian economy to the modern (and currently extremely troubled one) was a fundamental change in the tax structure. Gone are the days of paying a local lord tribute for farming his lands in exchange for military might and the possible great honor of bearing his unwanted offspring through the rite of Prima Nocta (thanks Braveheart!). Enter the Industrial Revolution with electricity, mechanized production, trains, and other awesome stuff. The transition was a little creaky at first—disease, starvation, no sanitation, orphanariums…so taxes. Taxes to pay for sanitation, roads, schools, better orphanariums, telephone lines, internet connections, football stadiums, clean food and medicine. All things Philadelphia likes, and all things she’s currently having a little trouble paying for—in part because some people don’t want to pay their local taxes.

How embarrassing must to get called out by the mayor for being delinquent on your taxes!

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This week's winner was a no-brainer. How could we pick anybody but the man who grabbed pretty much all the headlines, Milton Street? Where could we even begin? The biggest news, of course, was Milton being convicted of tax evasion. But our favorite part of this whole ordeal was Milton's "defense," sort of like the one Wesley Snipes pulled out in connection with his legal troubles: that federal income taxes are unconstitutional. Hey, we hate paying taxes as much as the next guy, but we do it. And if Milton really wanted to bitch about taxes, he should've started with Philadelphia's city wage tax, which, every feel like we look at our pay stub, makes us feel like we've just been mugged. The one thing we can say for Milton is that, to our knowledge, he didn't draft a ridiculous anti-tax manifesto, a la Mr. Snipes. So, because lampooning him once this week just wasn't enough, we happily award the distinction of Asshole of the Week to Milton Street.