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Old 02-24-2010, 11:01 AM   #100
yads
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Originally Posted by edn88 View Post
Not sad about this at all - I am sick of the only answer to everything being raising taxes. That is a BS response to the population increase... as the population increases, so to does your tax base. Put user fees in place for items that are too popular, and stop whining.
Except I don't think that's how it works. 'Raising' taxes, means raising the amount of tax collected from everyone. As people move into the city they spread the taxes out amongst more people, which means individual taxes decrease. So raising taxes is in fact required to maintain the same per capita spending.
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