Philadelphia Councilperson Joan Krajewski had a letter published in yesterday's Daily News calling for a new approach to collecting back taxes. She argues that

We need to make a deal with the people who owe the city $1.2 billion in back taxes by allowing them to come on down and pay their debt in exchange of waiving the interest and penalty during an amnesty program.

If we don't, who knows what is behind the curtain or trap door? It could be even more cuts in more city services, it could be more job layoffs, it could be a city bankrupted wishing we shoulda, woulda, coulda "made a deal."