Limerick Contest Winner Announced

Aurora Hayes of Mayfair has been selected as the Tax Reform Poet Laureate for her outstanding limerick.  Aurora, a former Philadelphia Fire Department Dispatcher, owns her own business in Frankford and is all too familiar with the fact that high and unfair taxes chase firms and families from Philadelphia.  Aurora's winning entry captured the need for tax reform...

The City of Brotherly Love
With taxes that soar up above
As we fight and we strive
To just stay alive
Tax Reform now would fit like a glove

Read more a few limericks that are honorably mentioned.

Our money, to taxes it goes
And still, every one of us knows
That business we need
Investment's the seed
To help Philadelphia grow

There once was a man from Nantucket
Who never got taxed on his bucket
He moved to Philly
And was taxed willy nilly
So he moved home and said f*** it

City Hall says we don't have the money
For tax cuts, so our future will be sunny
They say we are lean,
A well-oiled machine
Laugh out loud, because that's really funny

There's now a well-off family of four
That lives in Philly no more
To the south they fled
To avoid being bled
By the taxes that rendered them poor

 

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