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To: ReignOfError
Yeah, but it gets zero state or local tax. Not really a fair comparison.

There's sales tax, restaurant tax, and cigarette tax. They do okay.

225 posted on 01/02/2006 3:13:21 PM PST by nina0113
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226 posted on 01/02/2006 5:35:50 PM PST by Landry Fan (It's Still Christmas!)
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To: nina0113
There's sales tax, restaurant tax, and cigarette tax. They do okay.

But no property or income tax. And even if they could collect property tax, they wouldn't get much of it, because so much of the District is federal property and therefore exempt.

Don't get me wrong; it's not really subject to dispute that DC gets and spends a lot of money poorly. My sole point is that it's misleading to compare federal tax dollars per capita, because the feds shoulder the whole load that's split between the feds, municipalities and states elsewhere in the U.S., from law enforcement to medicaid to schools.

249 posted on 01/03/2006 9:02:39 AM PST by ReignOfError
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