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Pennsylvanians Still Paying Tax To Rebuild Town Flooded... - 6/7/2011 10:52:06 AM   
pahunkboy


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Status: offline 		Pennsylvanians Still Paying Tax To Rebuild Town Flooded In 1936

It's been 122 years since Johnstown, PA, was nearly wiped off the face of the planet by a flood that killed more than 2,000 people. And it's been 75 years since even more damage was done to the down by the St. Patrick's Day flood of 1936, spurring the commonwealth to enact a tax on alcohol sales to help rebuild the town. Luckily, that tax was only needed for a few years, so it's obviously long since been repealed... right?

"By 1942, they had sufficient funds to rebuild the city," State Rep. Jim Marshall tells CBS Pittsburgh. "And yet the tax continued."

The tax adds around 18% to the cost of booze in PA, a state already well known for its byzantine and arcane approach to the sale of alcohol.

Marshall says that there have been "about 13 bills to repeal or reduce the tax," since 1997, but it's easy to see why the tax hasn't been repealed when you see that it brings in around $200 million each year to the state's general revenue fund.
http://consumerist.com/2011/06/pennsylvanians-still-paying-tax-to-rebuild-town-flooded-in-1936.html

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RE: Pennsylvanians Still Paying Tax To Rebuild Town Flo... - 6/7/2011 2:38:21 PM   
Termyn8or


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Status: offline 		Well the income tax was instituted to pay for the war. They just made sure they never paid for the war. So now, this project is not paid off, no matter how much mney they have now. So they still need more.

See how that works ?

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RE: Pennsylvanians Still Paying Tax To Rebuild Town Flo... - 6/7/2011 3:19:58 PM   
littlewonder


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Status: offline 		I grew up in Johnstown.

Sorry but Johnstown is far from being repaired from that flood or the one that happened in 1976 at the same place that I lived through there.

Unfortunately that whole area is still suffering the long term effects from both floods and the stripping from the coal mines and the closing of the Bethlehem Steel Mills. It's one of the poorest areas of Pennsylvania.

The younger generation leave the area as soon as they graduate because there are no jobs there and the weather is horrible there. Unless the newer generations stay around to bring in income, the tax is needed. It's going to take decades yet for Johnstown to recover if it even ever does. I'm not sure it can to be honest. Having grown up there and all my family still lives there, I predict the region will be a ghost town within the next 10 years.



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