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The Next Mayor | Issues Forums | Taxes


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The Next Mayor | Issues Forums | Taxes

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The Next Mayor project is an innovative, two-year multimedia partnership to focus on the issues - not just the personalities - leading to the 2007 Philadelphia mayor's race. It was created by the Daily News, WHYY and the Committee of Seventy. We took what we what we learned from our travels around the region and identified 16 different issues that are important to the people of Greater Philadelphia. Tune in as we convene panels of experts to talk about those issues. They'll let us know how other cities are tackling those same problems and they'll make suggestions to the next mayor. Brett Mandel is the executive director of Philadelphia Forward, a non-profit, advocacy group devoted to ethics, tax and budget reform. Rob Dubow is the executive director of the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority, the agency that has overseen the city's finances since the state bailout in 1991. Ellen Yin is the owner of Fork Restaurant. As a small business owner, she's dealt with her fair share of the wage, business and real estate taxes and offers her perspective. They tell The Next Mayor about the problems created by the way Philadelphia uses taxes and the city's relatively high tax rates. They also warn of impending budgetary problems that must be considered when the next mayor deals with tax reform.

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