{"id":125956,"date":"2026-02-28T10:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125956\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T10:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:28:07","slug":"pennsylvanias-tax-system-is-the-most-fair-for-all-letter-letters-to-the-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125956\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania\u2019s tax system is the most fair for all [letter] | Letters To The Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m always amazed at what some people consider a \u201cfair\u201d tax. Our current state income tax is 3.07% \u2014 for everybody. There are no politicians messing around with who should pay what or favoring one group of citizens over another.<\/p>\n<p>If you earn a little, you pay a little, and you are participating in the economy of the state. If you make a lot, you pay a lot. The more your pay goes up, the more tax you pay, in a straight line.<\/p>\n<p>There is no additional tax on your income because someone else thinks you should pay a greater percentage calculated by some arbitrary scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The current system seems to be the fairest one to me: Earn a little, pay a little; earn a lot, pay a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Adams<\/p>\n<p>Mount Joy<\/p>\n<p>\n                Success! An email has been sent to  with a link to confirm list signup.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Error! There was an error processing your request.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019m always amazed at what some people consider a \u201cfair\u201d tax. Our current state income tax is 3.07%&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,58921,5800],"class_list":["post-125956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-state-tax","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}