Philadelphia sales tax, health care
"Now we're not only going to compete with online merchants but with the suburbs, where sales tax is 6 percent." - Center City retailer Robert Smith, on plans to raise the tax in Philadelphia from7 percent to 8 percent
"Now we're not only going to compete with online merchants but with the suburbs, where sales tax is 6 percent." - Center City retailer Robert Smith, on plans to raise the tax in Philadelphia from
7 percent to 8 percent
"I am a little hard-pressed to think that many people are suddenly going to flee to King of Prussia to save another penny on the dollar." - Mayor Nutter
"Whoever follows [resigning CEO Edward Liddy] will really have a job of fashioning a new strategy of a downsized AIG." - James Post, professor of corporate governance and ethics at Boston University
"Every shoeless day is a good day." - David Kelly, chief market strategist at JPMorgan Funds, on market days passing without the proverbial shoe dropping
"She has never pinched a thing in her life - probably as a little girl, yes - but she is so honest, so honest." - Sue Hurring, of New Zealand, who said her daughter, Kara Yang, skipped that country after a bank mistakenly extended Yang a $6.1 million credit line
"The real problem is the escalating cost of medical care." - Elizabeth Williams, Independence Blue Cross spokeswoman, on rising premiums
"I can't [afford] health insurance." - unemployed telemarketer Deborah Jackson-Smith