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To: SeekAndFind

OK, if there are no property taxes, how do you propose we pay for:

local schools, user fees (tuition with scholarships)+ sales taxes
libraries, eliminate, or user fees
garbage disposal, user fees (duh!)
parks, privatize, eliminate, or user fees, sales taxes
police, sales taxes
firefighters, user fees funded though homeowners insurance companies
snow removal, gas taxes
local road repairs, gas taxes

If you wish, you can augment things labeled “sales taxes” with other forms of state revenue including gax taxes, income taxes (yecch!) and gaming revenue.


14 posted on 12/01/2011 8:45:51 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Author of BullionBible.com - Makes You a Precious Metal Expert, Guaranteed.)
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To: Beelzebubba
garbage disposal, user fees (duh!)

An interesting story out of rural Arizona. We had user fees of $20 monthly from a local garbage disposal company. It went out of business. A new outfit took over but refused to send it's trucks down gravel roads (about half our community).

Enter small-scale free enterprise. Some guy, on a paved road, set up a site where he could have three dumpsters. Charged $7 for a pickup load, $1 for a green bagful. When the dumpster is full, the company's garbage truck picks them up. (Saves us about $14 a month, since we have a burn barrel.)

Granted it wouldn't work in heavily-populated areas, but it shows what can be done.

25 posted on 12/01/2011 10:22:04 AM PST by Oatka (This is the USA, assimilate or evaporate.)
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