From: nilknocgeo@earthlink.net   
      
   "Adam H. Kerman"  wrote in message   
   news:lqjqm8$rli$1@news.albasani.net...   
   > 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.   
      
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