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Originally Posted by fotze
Well the other inner city neighborhoods also probably payed their initial infrastructure costs, so could we take the initial outlay of costs out of the equation because it can be assumed that those are a wash?
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Depends on the equation. The usual charge is that people in the inner city pay more taxes right now to cover high costs in new neighbourhoods right now. The just aren't there. But it sure makes for great politics for Bronco to constantly say so.
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But that infrastructure is alot of the time shared by the entire city whereas the street in Tuscany is not so much. i.e. half the city drives down my street every day but I have been to Tuscany once. i.e. we should both pay for its maintenance. Older stuff is more costly but roads will always need to be replaced every 20 years everywhere and they are designed to accomodate their predicted loads..
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I'm not sure there's anymore traffic on a residential street in tuxedo than a residential street in Tuscany. You're right thouh that at the end of the day we all pay for everything. It's just that our city has a great excuse for tax hikes every year because we have to pay for
the other guy. If only we could screw
the other guy for once.
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Maybe if people payed a road tax according to their odometer would be the more fair.
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or..say ...5 cents a litre
