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Originally Posted by GP_Matt
This means that a large county with a lot of roads and very few people receives $2000 per capita for road maintenance while cities get closer to $28 per person to maintain their own road network. It doesn't really make any logical sense and really distorts the property tax rates between urban and rural. Another contributor that wasn't mentioned is that urban areas have to pay for their own police force while in rural areas the policing is free.
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Thanks for the explanation... I take it the linear tax is specifically earmarked for roads?