Thursday, January 3, 2013
U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach will now represent all of Tredyffrin and Easttown under redrawn Sixth Congressional District maps.
When U.S. Congressman Jim Gerlach (R-PA6) and U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) are sworn in for their second terms in Washington Thursday they will become part of what may be the most diverse Congress in U.S. History. Under the newly redrawn map of the Sixth Congressional District Gerlach will represent all of Tredyffrin Easttown. Until now a small part of TE was included in the Seventh Congressional District which will again be represented by Patrick Meehan (R-PA7) in the new 113th Congress. A career politician, Gerlach was first elected to Congress in 2002 after serving more than a decade in the Pennsylvania State House and Senate. You can read his official biography on Gerlach's House website. U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) will be sworn in…
Sunday, July 29, 2012
The 7th District Congressman spent Friday touring local businesses to put a spotlight on tax rates ahead of next week's votes in Congress.
House Repblicans, under fire from the White House and Senate Democrats, are on a nationwide campaign this weekend to make their case for extending the current "Bush tax rates" next year. They will expire at the end of 2012 if The House, Senate, and President don't agree to extend the rates. Democrats want to extend the tax rates for (in general) people earning under $250,000. Republican say that would end up putting a huge new burden on many small business owners who file as individuals, not corporations, but whose businesses earn way over $250,000. Seventh District Congressman Pat Meehan, a moderate freshman Republican who is also running for reelection in the fall, toured several small businesses across Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery…
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Sixth District Congressman warns bad news for employment will result if Bush-era tax rates are not continued.
It is one of the hotly debated issues of this presidential election year. Should taxes be raised on the so-called rich? Congressman Jim Gerlach (R-PA6) has sent an email to constituents, which is also posted here on his website, stating his opposition to any tax increases, and citing a new report by the accounting firm Ernst & Young that Gerlach says indicates that "raising the top tax rates next year would cost 710,000 Americans their jobs and shrink the paychecks of workers by 1.8 percent." According to the Gerlach newsletter and website posting: The study examined what would happen if some of the tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 -- and extended for two years by President Obama in 2010 -- were allowed to expire. The President and some …
RosiesDad
2:43 pm on Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Let me clarify on the AMT: For upper middle class earners ($250-500K), the increase in marginal tax rate will be larger than the AMT these taxpayers currently pay and as a result, they will have no additional tax liability under the AMT. In other words, their added tax liability will be what I laid out in my original comment. more ›