The Pittsburgh City Council voted 6-2 to approve a 20% property tax increase as part of a $693.2 million spending plan for 2026.
WESA reports the budget proposal raises the city’s property tax rate from 8.06 mills to 9.67 mills. This increases the city’s property tax burden by $161 a year for a $100,000 property, effective in 2026. Tax hike supporters said this will raise roughly $28.3 million next year.
The spending plan, which was passed yesterday in a rare weekend session, is higher than the $678 million budget originally proposed by Mayor Ed Gainey. The tax hike is also smaller than a 30% increase proposed by Councilor Barbara Warwick.
Gainey has 10 days to decide whether to accept or veto the spending plan; the measure becomes law if he neither signs nor vetoes it. Jake Pawlak, Gainey’s top budget official, said the administration found the 20% hike “significant,” adding the mayor will make a full response on the issue early this week.
Lol, wait until next year. The blue cities are just concentration camps for Democrats who pay the taxes and the illegals who are the new slaves of the Democrat party. Meanwhile, the Party members all get richer and more powerful as crime spirals out of control… cost to coast, the Democrats are systematically destroying cities…
“We the people”…that’s a good way to describe the situation in many major cities across our country. It’s Democracy in action for all the citizens. There are some winners and some losers. For me it’s a lot of losers but that’s me. If people don’t like it they can pack up and leave or they can somehow find enough fed up people to turn the tables. Politics sometimes turn on a dime and in other cases turns slowly like a big ocean liner on the seas.
They are using these increases for fraud. This is the biggest scam of our lifetime.