From: nilknocgeo@earthlink.net   
      
   "Adam H. Kerman"  wrote in message   
   news:lqjbja$qed$1@news.albasani.net...   
   > 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.   
      
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