"My hope is that the city would finally have the chutzpah to substantively address its adversarial tax structure to one that encourages job growth, company formation/retention and growing public revenues through economic expansion, not by overtaxing a shrinking job base.



"On a daily basis our city has almost 40% of all residents commuting outside the city to work — an unconscionably high percentage and a true harbinger of future job loss," since workers tend to migrate closer to jobs."



(Lauren Gilchrist, research director at commercial real estate agency JLL's Philly office, confirms city out-commuters are 39%, citing U.S. Census. The data shows that's not unusual vs. other cities: Philadelphians commute out to suburban and other-metro jobs about the same as in San Francisco, Seattle or Chicago, less than Detroit, L.A. or Boston, more than New York, Houston or D.C. Out-commutes haven't been growing faster here than elsewhere.)