Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Rent control, zoning, and politics.
Summary: Really about tax base
Message-ID: <2423@geac.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 88 17:14:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2423
Posted: Wed Mar  9 12:14:44 1988
References: <594@oscvax.UUCP> <2303@unicus.UUCP> <2399@geac.UUCP> <17362@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Distribution: ont
Organization: The G. Yac Tax Base.
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In article <17362@watmath.waterloo.edu> rbutterworth@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth) writes:
| Not only that, if you spend $10000 on installing your deck, ...
| the city will charge you more taxes than your neighbour who lets
| his house rot and spends the $10000 on vacations in Hawaii.
| 
| I could understand a tax based on the area of land owned, the
| number of people that live or work there, or some such measure
| of how much your presence is costing the city (roads, utility
| access, garbage disposal, etc.), but basing municipal (and even
| worse, educational) taxes on how much one's buildings are worth
| is a ridiculous idea.

  Agreed. It is no longer a good enough indicator.

  What is a good indicator of cost-to-municipality?
  How do we work a switchover?
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 David Collier-Brown.                 {mnetor yunexus utgpu}!geac!daveb
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