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   "Adam H. Kerman"  wrote in message   
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   > conklin  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>"Adam H. Kerman"  wrote in message   
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   >>> 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?   
   >>   
   >>The fuel tax should pay for roads.   
   >   
   > Nonresponsive   
      
   Yes it is responsive.  The fuel tax needs to pay for roads.  You cannot a   
   national system with each person paying for the piece in front of his/her   
   house.  That is 1600 thinking, and it did not work then.  It won't work now.   
      
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