Current and Former City Officials Respond to Nutter's New Budget Plan

One interested observer in City Council chambers who heard the mayor's address on Thursday has played it both ways -- both as a longtime councilman and as a two-term mayor.

Former mayor John Street says the trash and soda fees cause him real concern:

"When you put a $300 tax on regular, everyday, poor working people that they have to pay this to have your trash picked up, that's a real problem."

Street now teaches at Temple University and brought his class to Thursday's presentation. As for the sweet drink tax, he pulled from his pack an empty two-liter bottle of soda that he used as a prop:

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