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From: robg@mmintl.UUCP (Robert Goldman)
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Subject: Re: State Tax Dedudction
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Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 12:06:57 EDT
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>     Seems like one of the best ideas I've *ever* heard come out of Ronnie
>Ray-gun.  Consider:  the marginal cost to a local government of each citizen
>is highest when the population density is highest. (else why are NJ, NY, NYC,
>CA, etc. the places with the highest local taxes?)  Some people choose to
>live in these places anyway, for whatever reason, and end up paying more to
>their local governments in taxes than people who live more rural areas.  They
>receive more services from their local governments as a result: better
>police protection, fire departments, garbage pickup, etc.  
             /\ 
   when were you last in NYC?

	Part of the reason that these places have high taxes is that people from
your precious rural areas flee there when they can't find jobs, treatment
for mental illness, etc., etc.  People in these high population areas are
paying to support the `human garbage' generated by areas with lower tax
rates.  SOMEBODY'S got to feed the poor S.O.B.'s.

						robert goldman
						multimate int'l.

opinions are mine and mine alone.