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FakeNoose

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8. There's a lot more to it than "corporate give-aways"

Thu Jul 28, 2022, 09:50 AM

Jul 2022

I live in Pittsburgh and I remember when the steels mills shut down and laid everybody off. It was a sad, horrible time when young families and young people out of school had no choice but to move away and find jobs elsewhere.

Well Pittsburgh has no steel mills anymore, we've become a high-tech hub with Carnegie Mellon University as the magnet. We've also become a hospital/medical research hub with Pitt Medical School and UPMC as the magnet.

It has taken almost 40 years to turn this around. Josh Shapiro came to Pittsburgh yesterday to acknowledge the hard work and hard choices that leaders in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County have made along the way. Shapiro is pretty much saying that the state of Pennsylvania can learn from the success in Pittsburgh.

Here's what Shapiro says in the same article:

Mr. Shapiro, the sitting attorney general, said his administration would create an Office of Economic Growth and Workforce Development, a first-of-its-kind venture that would serve as a resource for businesses to get timely answers to their questions. Now, when a business wants to move here, they have to go to numerous different agencies and a complex bureaucratic web, Mr. Shapiro said.

“By creating a one-stop shop, we’ll save companies time,” Mr. Shapiro said, “and time is money.”

This could have been done 50 years ago - but it wasn't.

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Josh Shapiro tells Pittsburgh his 'business-friendly' administration would slash corporate tax [View all] FakeNoose Jul 2022 OP

They ought to cut the real estate taxes. Maggiemayhem Jul 2022 #1

I'm not sure the governor can control that. jimfields33 Jul 2022 #2

It's the world we live in IMO. MontanaFarmer Jul 2022 #4

In Pa we lead the nation in socialist corporate welfare The Jungle 1 Jul 2022 #6

The property tax system in Pa is hopelessly corrupt. The Jungle 1 Jul 2022 #7

I'm surprised the sale doesn't trigger a new assessment. nt Phoenix61 Jul 2022 #9

That is not how it works in Pa. The Jungle 1 Jul 2022 #10

Slash corporate tax. 3Hotdogs Jul 2022 #3

I will still vote for him however we part ways on this issue. The Jungle 1 Jul 2022 #5

There's a lot more to it than "corporate give-aways" FakeNoose Jul 2022 #8

The steel workers were not the only folks affected. The Jungle 1 Jul 2022 #11