Quote – Thacher Longstreth, president of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce

So that a bill like the Right to Know Bill is not in itself definitive; it would not drive all of these businesses away. It will bear more harshly on some than others, and may expedite their rate of closing or leaving or – and very often it’s not even a question of driving a company away, they just don’t expand here. They go and expand somewhere else.

Testimony before the Philadelphia City Council. From the Council of the City of Philadelphia, Committee On Public Health and Welfare.

Tuesday, October 7, 1980