Beaver County Times: Taxes May Be Biggest Burden Facing Aliquippa
media mentionBy Tom Davidson,
The city still bustles with traffic now and then, although most of it’s just passing through town.
On Thursday afternoon, Mayor Dwan Walker and City Manager Sam Gill took a drive through Aliquippa, starting at what they call the east end corridor between the Ohio River and Route 51 where the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp.’s sprawling mill once dominated the landscape.
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That those who make the least pay a higher percentage of their income to pay their taxes is a “built-in inequity” in poorer communities, according to the Act 47 plan.
It’s something that happens nationwide, according to the “Who Pays?” report by the non-partisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington-based think tank that takes up taxing issues.