From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   conklin  wrote:   
   >"Adam H. Kerman"  wrote:   
   >>conklin  wrote:   
   >>>hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   >>>>On Sunday, July 20, 2014 11:58:03 PM UTC-4, Glen Labah wrote:   
      
   >>>>>It's rather hard to take anything on an Americans for Prosperity web   
   >>>>>site seriously.  It's a mouthpiece basically for the Koch Brothers.   
      
   >>>>Just a quick glimpse at their website shows all sorts of distortions   
   >>>>about the investment costs in transit, Amtrak, highways and airways.   
      
   >>>>They jumped onto the "free wine" bandwagon of complaints about Amtrak   
   >>>>food service.   
      
   >>>>Bottom line:  my property taxes go up to pay for more highways.   
      
   >>>The gas tax needs to go up, not your property taxes.   
      
   >>Perhaps you could explain how there's no relationship between   
   >>transportation and land value, George, so that hancock's property taxes   
   >>shouldn't go up if his highways are improved. If his highways suck,   
   >>his property taxes should go down.   
      
   >I did not address the issue of transportation and land values.  Land right   
   >on a railroad?  Noise.  Too close to an airport?  Noise.  Too close to a   
   >highway?  Noise.  It all depends on where and what.   
      
   In many of those cases, proximity is an advantage for certain land uses.   
   No one builds hotels for air travellers that aren't close to an airport.   
   No one builds big-box stores and large office buildings on minor roads.   
      
   If hancock's road takes him to an employment center with good jobs,   
   his land value rises. Why exactly shouldn't the highway be paid for   
   with property taxes?   
      
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