Chaka Fattah said "The issue of budget autonomy is one that I support, and I am the cosponsor of the bill, but it is also a matter of having the city be able to reach the revenues that are here. The city is prohibited from taxing sales that happen on Federal property. It cannot go after suburbanites who earn wages in the city, because we prohibit the city from, as other cities, mine and others are able, to attach those wage earners. So if we are going to talk about the fact that the city has a limited tax base, we need to understand why it is limited. It is limited because of our own actions." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordDecember 6, 2001

The issue of budget autonomy is one that I support, and I am the cosponsor of the bill, but it is also a matter of having the city be able to reach the revenues that are here. The city is prohibited from taxing sales that happen on Federal property. It cannot go after suburbanites who earn wages in the city, because we prohibit the city from, as other cities, mine and others are able, to attach those wage earners. So if we are going to talk about the fact that the city has a limited tax base, we need to understand why it is limited. It is limited because of our own actions.

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Chaka Fattah

Pennsylvania

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govinfo.gov

Editor's note · Context

Discussing budget autonomy and tax limitations affecting the city.

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