Allegheny County's latest proposed legal robbery of the local citizenry through a proposed car-rental tax illustrates how poorly managed are the finances of the county.
Then, too, we are told that the purpose of our new convention center is to encourage conventions to visit Pittsburgh. It must be a great encouragement to pay a 14 percent hotel tax, and now the county wants to add another tax. Maybe the people of Allegheny County are satisfied to be taxed to the extreme, but those who live outside the county have no motivation to shore up the county's shaky financial structure.
I have a novel suggestion for our political leaders — cut expenses.
I am really amazed how patient is the citizenry of Allegheny County when it comes to being taxed. Maybe we should be identified with the slogan, "We never met a tax we didn't like."
